| Built By: | Fore River (USA) |
| Build Group: | H1 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1925 |
Held up by the US Government until the USA joined WW1 in 1917.
Transferred to Canada June 1919 as Ch14
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| Length overall | 171 ft 9 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 9 inch |
| Draught | 15 ft 4 inch |
| Displacement | 438 tons (surface) |
| 504 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 150 ft |
| Speed | Surface 13 knots (design) |
| Surface 11.5 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9.5 to 10 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Armament | 4 x 21 inch bow tubes (6 torpedoes carried) |
| Endurance | Surface: 2000 miles at full power (design) |
| Surface: 1100 miles at full power or 1600 miles at 10 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 70 miles at 3 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 9 miles at 8 knots or 34 miles at 3.5 knots (service) | |
| Complement | 2 Officers and 20 Rating |
ptain J R Phil Wadman died in 2014. In 1966 he was appointed to command the Port Crew of Repulse, the 3rd Polaris submarine to be ordered but the second, behind Resolution, from Vickers Shipbuilders in Barrow-in-Furness. Soon afterwards, Tony Whetstone was appointed to command the Starboard crew. Together they forged an exceptional partnership which had a huge influence on every aspect of the submarine's early history.
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