Sanguine (P 266)

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Sanguine (P 266)

Built By:	Cammell Laird (Mersey)
Build Group:	S3
Fate:	Sold to the Israeli Navy 1958 and renamed Rahav. Scrapped Haifa, 1969.

Sanguine (P 266)

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Commanders

1945:	Lieutenant	Peter Tremayne Miles
1945:	Acting Lieutenant	Percy Clive Stanbury Pritchard (RNR)	MID
1946:	Lieutenant	Stanley William Clayden	DSC
1951:	Lieutenant Commander	Charles Brian Mills	DSC
1953:	Lieutenant Commander	Andrew Thomas Chalmers	DSC MID
1955:	Lieutenant Commander	Allan Gordon Tait	DSC MID

Transferred to Israel in 1959 and renamed Rahav.

Events

10-01-1944	Laid Down

15-02-1945	Launched

13-05-1945	Completed

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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:	1902 - 1920: A Class
Built By:	Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group:	A1
Fate:
Rammed and sunk by the HMS Hazard (The original Submarine Tender), off the Isle of Wight on 2nd February 1912. Raised and used as target and sunk on 17th May 1912.

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