| Built By: | Varley Marine (Hamble) |
| Build Group: | XP |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1945 |
Unofficially named Piker
Submariner who helped to mortally damage Tirpitz and spent six months in solitary confinement.
| 01-09-1941 | Laid Down |
| 15-03-1942 | Launched |
| 20-03-1942 | Completed |
| 04-11-1942 | Submarine X-3 sank in a training accident in Loch Striven due to a leaking engine valve. The Submarine was raised later the same day by the Salvage Vessel HMS Tedworth. There were no casualties, all three Officers onboard (all Sub Lieutenants) were Trainees and managed to escape safely using DSEA sets after about 40 minutes on the bottom in approximately 110 feet of water. One (Sub Lieutenant John Thornton Lorimer RNVR) continued to serve in X-Craft but the other two, Sub Lieutenants Gay and Laites, transferred to another Branch of the Navy. After refitting at Vickers at Barrow in Furness the Submarine was returned to service. |
| Length overall | 43 ft |
| Beam | 8 ft (with charges) / 5 ft 6 inch (without charges) |
| Displacement | With Charges: 30 tons (surface) / 32 1/2 tons (submerged) |
| With Charges: 32 1/2 tons (submerged) | |
| Without Charges: 27 tons (surface) | |
| Without Charges: 29 1/2 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 200 ft |
| Speed | With Charges: 6.5 knots (surface) |
| 5 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Armament | 2 x 2-ton side charges |
| Limpet mines | |
| Endurance | Surface: 1100 miles at 4.5 knots (with charges) |
| Surface: 1400 miles at 4.5 knots (without charges) | |
| Submerged: 85 miles at 2 knots (with charges) | |
| Submerged: 85 miles at 2 knots (without charges) | |
| Complement | 3 |
This happened at sea on board HMS Ambush while we were doing work up trials not long after the boat had been handed over from the Dockyard, the Skipper was a bit of a Gunnery addict (I think he liked the smell of cordite) and he had an obsession to be able to go to
A special group of navy divers is created when a disabled Nazi warship is discovered in a fjord in Norway. Commander Bolton (James Caan) is the Canadian expert designated to train the new unit. Their mission is to plant a bomb on the warship as it undergoes repairs. The hard-driving Bolton encounters resentment from the British soldiers he trains, but he ultimately earns their respect as a leader. Their intense training operation is interrupted by an attack of Nazi paratroopers just before the unit leaves for Norway. Spectacular underwater photography is seen in this World War II adventure story based on an actual mission
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| Length overall | 43 ft |
| Beam | 8 ft (with charges) / 5 ft 6 inch (without charges) |
| Displacement | With Charges: 30 tons (surface) / 32 1/2 tons (submerged) |
| With Charges: 32 1/2 tons (submerged) | |
| Without Charges: 27 tons (surface) | |
| Without Charges: 29 1/2 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 200 ft |
| Speed | With Charges: 6.5 knots (surface) |
| 5 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Armament | 2 x 2-ton side charges |
| Limpet mines | |
| Endurance | Surface: 1100 miles at 4.5 knots (with charges) |
| Surface: 1400 miles at 4.5 knots (without charges) | |
| Submerged: 85 miles at 2 knots (with charges) | |
| Submerged: 85 miles at 2 knots (without charges) | |
| Complement | 3 |
This happened at sea on board HMS Ambush while we were doing work up trials not long after the boat had been handed over from the Dockyard, the Skipper was a bit of a Gunnery addict (I think he liked the smell of cordite) and he had an obsession to be able to go to
A special group of navy divers is created when a disabled Nazi warship is discovered in a fjord in Norway. Commander Bolton (James Caan) is the Canadian expert designated to train the new unit. Their mission is to plant a bomb on the warship as it undergoes repairs. The hard-driving Bolton encounters resentment from the British soldiers he trains, but he ultimately earns their respect as a leader. Their intense training operation is interrupted by an attack of Nazi paratroopers just before the unit leaves for Norway. Spectacular underwater photography is seen in this World War II adventure story based on an actual mission
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