| Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | R |
| Fate: | Broken Up May 1934 |
| 1923: | Lieutenant Commander | Edward Arthur Aylmer | DSC |
| 1924: | Lieutenant | Gerald Gordon Slade | |
| 1927: | Lieutenant | John Hugh Lewes | |
| 1931: | Lieutenant | John Wentworth McCoy | |
| 1939: | Lieutenant Commander | William Eric Banks |
1931: 6th Submarine Flotilla
| Length overall | 163 ft 9 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 9 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft 3 inch |
| Displacement | 410 tons (surface) |
| 503 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 150 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 15 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9.5 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9.5 knots (service) | |
| Endurance | Surface: 2000 miles at 9 knots (design) |
| Surface: 2400 miles at full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 15 miles at full power (design) | |
| Submerged: 15 miles at full power or 150 miles at 1.5 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Armament | 6 x 18 inch bow tubes (7 torpedoes carried) |
| Complement | 2 officers, 20 ratings. |
| Class: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | T 3 |
| Fate: | |
| She was laid up at Portsmouth in 1972 after being taken out of commission September 1970 at Dolphin. Broken up in 1979. | |
The Real X-Men tells the story of the sacrifice and heroism of the individual men, many of them little more than teenagers, who volunteered for this dangerous duty and who crewed both the Chariots and the X-craft without knowing the full extent of the risks entailed, nor indeed the very small chances they had of coming back alive.
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| Length overall | 163 ft 9 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 9 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft 3 inch |
| Displacement | 410 tons (surface) |
| 503 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 150 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 15 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9.5 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9.5 knots (service) | |
| Endurance | Surface: 2000 miles at 9 knots (design) |
| Surface: 2400 miles at full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 15 miles at full power (design) | |
| Submerged: 15 miles at full power or 150 miles at 1.5 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Armament | 6 x 18 inch bow tubes (7 torpedoes carried) |
| Complement | 2 officers, 20 ratings. |
| Class: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | T 3 |
| Fate: | |
| She was laid up at Portsmouth in 1972 after being taken out of commission September 1970 at Dolphin. Broken up in 1979. | |
The Real X-Men tells the story of the sacrifice and heroism of the individual men, many of them little more than teenagers, who volunteered for this dangerous duty and who crewed both the Chariots and the X-craft without knowing the full extent of the risks entailed, nor indeed the very small chances they had of coming back alive.
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