| Built By: | Scotts (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
| Fate: | Scrapped Charlestown 8th August 1960 |
1944-1945: Indian Ocean.
| 21-02-1943 | Laid Down |
| 14-04-1944 | Launched |
| 11-08-1944 | Completed |
| 08-03-1945 | HMS Scythian sinks three Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire of the Mergui Archipel, Burma. |
| 14-03-1945 | HMS Scythian sinks three Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire of the Mergui Archipel, Burma. |
| 15-03-1945 | HMS Scythian sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire of the Mergui Archipel, Burma. |
| 05-05-1945 | HMS Scythian sinks a small Japanese vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca. |
| 19-05-1945 | HMS Scythian sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca. |
| 08-08-1960 | Scrapped at Charlestown |
| Length overall | 217 ft |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 11 ft |
| Diving Depth | 350 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 14.75 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 10 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 6000 miles at 10 knots (design) |
| Armament (i) | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 1 21 inch stern tube | |
| (13 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| 1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon | |
| Complement | 5 Officers and 43 Ratings |
| Note | The armament of submarines of this class varied considerably. For example: 23 boats were fitted with the six bow tubes only; 18 vessels, intended to operate in the Far East, had their 3 inch guns replaced by 4 inch guns; whilst, in some boats, the Oerlikon cannon replaced, rather than supplemented, the three machine-guns. |
| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
| Fate: | |
| Sold to the Israeli Navy 1958 and renamed Rahav. Scrapped Haifa, 1969. | |
Fort Blockhouse, originally established in 1495, was updated and became the home of the Royal Engineers' Submarine Mining School in 1873. This book looks at the history of this submarine base at Gosport.
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| Length overall | 217 ft |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 11 ft |
| Diving Depth | 350 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 14.75 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 10 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 6000 miles at 10 knots (design) |
| Armament (i) | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 1 21 inch stern tube | |
| (13 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| 1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon | |
| Complement | 5 Officers and 43 Ratings |
| Note | The armament of submarines of this class varied considerably. For example: 23 boats were fitted with the six bow tubes only; 18 vessels, intended to operate in the Far East, had their 3 inch guns replaced by 4 inch guns; whilst, in some boats, the Oerlikon cannon replaced, rather than supplemented, the three machine-guns. |
| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
| Fate: | |
| Sold to the Israeli Navy 1958 and renamed Rahav. Scrapped Haifa, 1969. | |
Fort Blockhouse, originally established in 1495, was updated and became the home of the Royal Engineers' Submarine Mining School in 1873. This book looks at the history of this submarine base at Gosport.
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