| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
| Fate: | Scrapped Gateshead 6th June 1961. |
1945: Pacific.
| 16-04-1943 | Laid Down |
| 14-07-1944 | Completed |
| 19-03-1945 | HMS Selene damages a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire north-east of Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. |
| 22-03-1945 | HMS Selene sinks three Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire north-east of Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. |
| 24-04-1945 | Launched |
| 25-06-1945 | HMS Selene sinks two Japanese coasters and a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Gulf of Siam. |
| 02-07-1945 | HMS Selene sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire in the Gulf of Siam. |
| 03-07-1945 | HMS Selene damages a Japanese coaster with gunfire in the Gulf of Siam. |
| 31-08-1957 | HMS Selene sinks five fishing boats (by accident) in the river Yare at Great Yarmouth in 1957 at the end of its paying off visit. |
| 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. |
E 34 |
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| Class: | 1911 - 1924: E Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | E3ML |
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Fate: Believed mined on 20th July 1918. Whilst returning from her twenty-fourth minelaying operation off Vlieland, she probably strayed into a minefield laid in that area by E51 some time earlier. She was the last E boat to be lost in WWI. |
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World War Two thriller starring John Mills. While out on routine patrol, the Royal Navy submarine Trojan accidentally strikes an electronically-operated drifting mine, and plunges immediately to the sea bed. As time and air start to run out, the Captain, Lt Cmdr Armstrong (Mills) gathers the handful of survivors together and tries to figure out the best means of escape.
Richard Attenborough and Nigel Patrick co-star.
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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. |
E 34 |
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| Class: | 1911 - 1924: E Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | E3ML |
|
Fate: Believed mined on 20th July 1918. Whilst returning from her twenty-fourth minelaying operation off Vlieland, she probably strayed into a minefield laid in that area by E51 some time earlier. She was the last E boat to be lost in WWI. |
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World War Two thriller starring John Mills. While out on routine patrol, the Royal Navy submarine Trojan accidentally strikes an electronically-operated drifting mine, and plunges immediately to the sea bed. As time and air start to run out, the Captain, Lt Cmdr Armstrong (Mills) gathers the handful of survivors together and tries to figure out the best means of escape.
Richard Attenborough and Nigel Patrick co-star.
12 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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