| Built By: | Scotts (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | G2 |
| Fate: | Cancelled |
| Length overall | 289 ft |
| Beam | 25 ft 6 inch |
| Draught | 16 ft 10 inch |
| Displacement | 1768 tons (surface) |
| 2053 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 300 ft |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 16 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 8.75 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 8.9 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes (12 torpedoes carried) |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| 50 x Mk XVI mines | |
| Complement | 55 |
In October 1942, the Battle of the Atlantic was at Its height and we were losing. Despite being far superior to anything Barrow had put in the water up to that time, German U-boats were not always successful.
Of all the acts of gallantry in World War II few were as audacious as the attack by midget submarines on the pride of the German fleet, the battleship Tirpitz, lying in her fortified mooring in a Norwegian fjord.
Lieutenant Godfrey Place was in command of submarine X7 in September 1943 and travelled over 1000 miles, negotiating minefields and antisubmarine nets to accurately place four tons of high explosive under the hull of the Tirpitz.
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| Length overall | 289 ft |
| Beam | 25 ft 6 inch |
| Draught | 16 ft 10 inch |
| Displacement | 1768 tons (surface) |
| 2053 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 300 ft |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 16 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 8.75 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 8.9 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes (12 torpedoes carried) |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| 50 x Mk XVI mines | |
| Complement | 55 |
In October 1942, the Battle of the Atlantic was at Its height and we were losing. Despite being far superior to anything Barrow had put in the water up to that time, German U-boats were not always successful.
Of all the acts of gallantry in World War II few were as audacious as the attack by midget submarines on the pride of the German fleet, the battleship Tirpitz, lying in her fortified mooring in a Norwegian fjord.
Lieutenant Godfrey Place was in command of submarine X7 in September 1943 and travelled over 1000 miles, negotiating minefields and antisubmarine nets to accurately place four tons of high explosive under the hull of the Tirpitz.
14 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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