| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | U2 |
| Fate: | Decommissioned in 1952, returned to the Royal Navy and scrapped in Holland. |
HMS P47 was transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy before completion and commisoned as HNLMS Dolfijn.
In 1952 she was decommissioned and returned to the Royal Navy.
The first Royal Navy Submarine to be fitted with an ASDIC Installation was, Barrow built Submarine H32 which acted as a test bed for an ASDIC Equipment based on a system fitted in Surface ships.
After an exhaustive two-year search for the truth about the events and aftermath of this terrible Submarine disaster in Liverpool Bay, June 1939, David Roberts has at last found some shocking hitherto unpublished details.
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The first Royal Navy Submarine to be fitted with an ASDIC Installation was, Barrow built Submarine H32 which acted as a test bed for an ASDIC Equipment based on a system fitted in Surface ships.
After an exhaustive two-year search for the truth about the events and aftermath of this terrible Submarine disaster in Liverpool Bay, June 1939, David Roberts has at last found some shocking hitherto unpublished details.
15 pages added or updated in the last Array months
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