Urchin (N 97) / Sokół (Dutch)

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Urchin (N 97) / Sokół (Dutch)

Built By:	Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group:	U1
Fate:	Scrapped in 1949.

Lieutenant Borys Karnicki, the Commanding Officer on the bridge with his sailors, possibly Portsmouth, 1941.

Urchin

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Commanders

1941:	Lieutenant Commander	Borys Karnicki (ORP)
1942:	Lieutenant Commander	Jerzy Karol Stanislaw Koziolkowski (ORP)
1942:	Lieutenant Commander	Borys Karnicki (ORP)	DSO
1942:	Lieutenant Commander	Jerzy Karol Stanislaw Koziolkowski (ORP)	DSC
1944:	Commander	Boleslaw Szymon Romanowski (ORP)	DSC
1945:	Commander	Boleslaw Szymon Romanowski (ORP)	DSC

Ex P39

Leased to the Polish Navy due to a lack of experienced submarine crews and served in Polish Navy as ORP Sokół (Falcon in English) from January 1941 - 1946

Gained the nickname "Terrible Twins" due to its efficiency when cooperating with its sister submarine ORP Dzik (P52). Altogether, during her wartime service Sokół sank or damaged 19 enemy vessels of about 55,000 tons in total.

Returned in 1946 and renumbered P97

Events

09-12-1939	Laid Down

30-10-1940	Launched

28-01-1941	Completed

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Length overall	190 ft 7 inch
Beam	15 ft 9 inch
Depth	15 ft 9 inch
Displacement	630 tons (surface)
	730 tons (submerged)
Diving Depth	200 ft
Speed	11.5 knots (surface)
	9 knots (submerged)
No. of shafts	2
Endurance	Surface: 4050 miles at 10 knots (design)
	Submerged: 23 miles at 8 knots or 170 miles at 2.5 knots (design)
Armament	(i) 4 x 21 inch bow tubes (8 torpedoes carried)
	(ii) 1 x 3 inch gun
	3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns
Complement	(peacetime) 4 Officers, 23 Others,
	(at war) 4 Officers, 27 Others
Note	(i) The first seven U Class submarines had two additional external bow tubes installed and carried 10 torpedoes
	(ii) Undine and Unity, which were not fitted with the 3 inch gun, had 27-man complements.

Class:	1927 - 1946: Parthian Class
Built By:	Cammell Laird (Mersey)
Build Group:	P
Fate:
Phoenix sailed on patrol in the Central Mediterranean from Alexandria on 3rd July 1940. A long-range attack was made on two Italian Battle Ships and four destroyer escorts and one hit was claimed. Phoenix continued on to the patrol area off Sicily where a minefield was to be laid. The Submarine was lost with all hands on 10th July 1940, probably after a depth charge attack by the Italian Torpedo Boat Albatros off the San Croce Lighthouse at Augusta in Sicily.

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