| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | V2 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in May 1946 at Cochin. |
| 17-02-1943 | Laid Down |
| 29-11-1943 | Launched |
| 29-02-1944 | Completed |
| 26-07-1944 | HMS Virtue fires four torpedoes at the German sailing vessel Doxa off Suda Bay, Crete. All torpedoes miss. |
| 29-07-1944 | HMS Virtue attacks a German sailing vessel with torpedoes and gunfire 13 nautical miles south-south-west of Milos but the vessel escapes. |
| 30-07-1944 | HMS Virtue fires a torpedo against the small German merchant Dresden of Ananes Island, Greece. The torpedo misses. |
| 16-08-1944 | HMS Virtue sinks three sailing vessels with gunfire and ramming nine miles south of Milos, Greece. |
| 19-08-1944 | HMS Virtue sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire south of Milos Island, Greece. |
| 21-08-1944 | HMS Virtue sinks two sailing vessels with gunfire off Cape Spatha, Crete, Greece. |
| 12-09-1944 | HMS Virtue fires three torpedoes against an auxiliary patrol vessel north-west of Psathoura Island, Greece. The torpedoes miss. |
| 13-09-1944 | HMS Virtue fires three torpedoes against the German auxiliary netlayer Pir'us in the Skiathos Channel, Greece. All torpedoes miss. |
| 09-10-1944 | HMS Virtue sinks the Greek sailing vessel Aghios Matthaios with gunfire west of Cape Stavros, Crete. |
| 10-10-1944 | While operating off Crete HMS Virtue sinks the Greek sailing vessels Sophia and Aghia Anna with gunfire. |
| 11-10-1944 | HMS Virtue sinks a watercarrier and two smaller vessels with gunfire off Cape Dhia, Crete, Greece. |
| Length overall | 195 ft 6 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 9 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft 10 inch |
| Displacement | 648 tons (surface) |
| 735 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 | 4 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| (8 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| Complement | 4 Officers and 33 Ratings |
| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped Dalmuir 7/50 | |
The design of the Type XXI U-Boat was a radical step in the history of submarine development; indeed, the vessel could be said to have been the prototype of the modern conventionally-powered submarine
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| Length overall | 195 ft 6 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 9 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft 10 inch |
| Displacement | 648 tons (surface) |
| 735 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 | 4 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| (8 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| Complement | 4 Officers and 33 Ratings |
| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped Dalmuir 7/50 | |
The design of the Type XXI U-Boat was a radical step in the history of submarine development; indeed, the vessel could be said to have been the prototype of the modern conventionally-powered submarine
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