| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | C1 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in November 1919. |
| 1917: | Lieutenant | Brookes |
1914: 5th Flotilla Chatham, HMS Thames
| Length overall | 143 ft |
| Beam | 13 ft |
| Displacement | Surface 290 tons |
| Draught | 11.5 ft |
| Submerged 320 tons | |
| Diving Depth | 100 ft |
| Speed | Surface 13 knots (design) |
| Surface 13+ knots (service) | |
| Submerged 7.5+ knots (design) | |
| Submerged 8 knots (service) | |
| Machinery | 600 hp petrol engine |
| 200 hp electric motor | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 5 ft 7 inch diameter |
| Armament | 2 x 18 inch bow torpedo tubes (4 torpedoes carried) |
| Endurance | Surface: 1300 miles at 9 knots (design) |
| Fuel | 15.5 tons (Petrol) |
| Surface: 910 miles at full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 16 miles at 8 knots | |
| Complement | 2 x officers, 14 x ratings |
Oberon (S 09) |
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| Class: | 1959 - 1998: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | O2a |
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Fate: She was sold to Seaforth Ship Repairers in 1987 and scrapped in 1991 at Grimsby in Doigs old ship yard |
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Robert Wise's screen adaptation of the novel by Commander Edward L. Beach.
Commander Richardson (Clark Gable) is the only survivor when his submarine is sunk by the Japanese cruiser 'Bongo Pete'. Assigned a new command, Richardson becomes obsessed with revenge, ignoring orders to avoid the Japanese Bongo Straits and drilling his crew in manoeuvres designed to destroy Bongo Pete.
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| Length overall | 143 ft |
| Beam | 13 ft |
| Displacement | Surface 290 tons |
| Draught | 11.5 ft |
| Submerged 320 tons | |
| Diving Depth | 100 ft |
| Speed | Surface 13 knots (design) |
| Surface 13+ knots (service) | |
| Submerged 7.5+ knots (design) | |
| Submerged 8 knots (service) | |
| Machinery | 600 hp petrol engine |
| 200 hp electric motor | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 5 ft 7 inch diameter |
| Armament | 2 x 18 inch bow torpedo tubes (4 torpedoes carried) |
| Endurance | Surface: 1300 miles at 9 knots (design) |
| Fuel | 15.5 tons (Petrol) |
| Surface: 910 miles at full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 16 miles at 8 knots | |
| Complement | 2 x officers, 14 x ratings |
Oberon (S 09) |
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| Class: | 1959 - 1998: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | O2a |
|
Fate: She was sold to Seaforth Ship Repairers in 1987 and scrapped in 1991 at Grimsby in Doigs old ship yard |
|
Robert Wise's screen adaptation of the novel by Commander Edward L. Beach.
Commander Richardson (Clark Gable) is the only survivor when his submarine is sunk by the Japanese cruiser 'Bongo Pete'. Assigned a new command, Richardson becomes obsessed with revenge, ignoring orders to avoid the Japanese Bongo Straits and drilling his crew in manoeuvres designed to destroy Bongo Pete.
20 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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