| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | P |
| Fate: | Scrapped by West of Scotland Shipbreaking at Troon 26 February 1946. |
1940 - 1st Flotilla: HMS Medway, Alexandria
One of the 'Magic Carpet' boats. This boat was the most successful of its class.
Proteus engaged and sank 17 German and Italian merchant ships, troopships, tankers and torpedo boats during her service in the Mediterranean in the Second World War. Her attack on the troop transport ship Ithaka is thought to be the first radar guided submarine attack.
HMS Proteus was the longest surviving Parthian-class submarine and the only Parthian class submarine to survive the war.
HMS Proteus Launch
Roll of Honour |
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| Goodwin, Keith John |
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| The son of John Henry Goodwin and Edith Lillian Goodwin. He died from Asthenia (general weakness) and acute encephalitis. However, according to the Naval BMD Record he was attached to HMS Brontosaurus, the Combined Operations Base in Argyll when he died. |
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| 18-07-1928 | Laid Down |
| 23-07-1929 | Launched |
| 17-06-1930 | Completed |
| 02-11-1941 | HMS Proteus made the first successful radar attack by a submarine as she damaged the Italian tanker Tampico off Andros, 50 miles southeast of Athens, Greece. Italian torpedo boats Monzambano and Castelfidardo counterattacked and chased off the British submarine. |
| Length overall | 289 ft 2 inch |
| Beam | 28 ft |
| Draught | 13 ft 8 inch |
| Displacement | 1760 tons (surface) |
| 2040 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 500 ft |
| Speed | Surface 17 to 17.5 knots (design) |
| Surface 17.5 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 8.5 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 6 ft 5 inch dia |
| Endurance | Surface: 11400 miles at 8 knots (design) |
| Surface: 10750 miles at 8 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 60 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 8.5 miles at 8.5 knots or 70 miles at 4 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (14 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| Complement | 53 |
Lieutenant-Commander H P de C Steel, Royal Navy, HMS Triton testimony given at the Board of Inquiry into the circumstances of the loss of HMS Oxley
A special group of navy divers is created when a disabled Nazi warship is discovered in a fjord in Norway. Commander Bolton (James Caan) is the Canadian expert designated to train the new unit. Their mission is to plant a bomb on the warship as it undergoes repairs. The hard-driving Bolton encounters resentment from the British soldiers he trains, but he ultimately earns their respect as a leader. Their intense training operation is interrupted by an attack of Nazi paratroopers just before the unit leaves for Norway. Spectacular underwater photography is seen in this World War II adventure story based on an actual mission
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| Length overall | 289 ft 2 inch |
| Beam | 28 ft |
| Draught | 13 ft 8 inch |
| Displacement | 1760 tons (surface) |
| 2040 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 500 ft |
| Speed | Surface 17 to 17.5 knots (design) |
| Surface 17.5 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 8.5 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 6 ft 5 inch dia |
| Endurance | Surface: 11400 miles at 8 knots (design) |
| Surface: 10750 miles at 8 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 60 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 8.5 miles at 8.5 knots or 70 miles at 4 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (14 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| Complement | 53 |
Lieutenant-Commander H P de C Steel, Royal Navy, HMS Triton testimony given at the Board of Inquiry into the circumstances of the loss of HMS Oxley
A special group of navy divers is created when a disabled Nazi warship is discovered in a fjord in Norway. Commander Bolton (James Caan) is the Canadian expert designated to train the new unit. Their mission is to plant a bomb on the warship as it undergoes repairs. The hard-driving Bolton encounters resentment from the British soldiers he trains, but he ultimately earns their respect as a leader. Their intense training operation is interrupted by an attack of Nazi paratroopers just before the unit leaves for Norway. Spectacular underwater photography is seen in this World War II adventure story based on an actual mission
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