| Built By: | Vickers (Tyne) |
| Build Group: | V2 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in May 1946 at Cochin. |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Frederick Danford Gordon Challis | DSC MID |
| 26-10-1942 | Laid Down |
| 11-11-1943 | Launched |
| 13-04-1944 | Completed |
| 15-09-1944 | HMS Voracious fires three torpedoes against the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 2110 5 nautical miles north of Skopelos Island, Greece. All torpedoes miss. |
| 17-09-1944 | HMS Voracious fires four torpedoes against a merchant in the Skopelos Channel, Greece. All four torpedoes miss. |
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| Admiralty Approved | 28th Mar, 1944 | |
| Motto | Adversarius devorabo. (I will devour my enemies.) | |
| Symbology | Sharks are voracious killers. | |
| Design Notes | a shark rising proper from water, per fess wavy blue and barry wavy of ten white and blue on a blue field. | |
| 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 |
Groton - When the USS Virginia goes to sea in 2004, it will represent perhaps the most radical change in submarine design since the Navy's first underwater Fighting vessel in 1900.
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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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 28th Mar, 1944 | |
| Motto | Adversarius devorabo. (I will devour my enemies.) | |
| Symbology | Sharks are voracious killers. | |
| Design Notes | a shark rising proper from water, per fess wavy blue and barry wavy of ten white and blue on a blue field. | |
| 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 |
Groton - When the USS Virginia goes to sea in 2004, it will represent perhaps the most radical change in submarine design since the Navy's first underwater Fighting vessel in 1900.
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
12 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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