| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Amphion |
| Fate: | Scrapped August 1972. |
| 1946: | Lieutenant | L S McIntosh | |
| 1947: | Lieutenant | Warwick Stanley Sherwood | |
| 1953: | Lieutenant Commander | Andrew Thomas Chalmers | DSC MID |
| 06-02-1945 | Laid Down |
| 25-06-1945 | Launched |
| 10-12-1946 | Completed |
| 06-06-1972 | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 6 June 1972. |
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 3rd Nov, 1945 | |
| Symbology | From the arms of the Channel Island of the same name. (The ship is affiliated). |
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| Design Notes | A gold lion rampant, ensigned with a royal crown in red, holding in his dexter paw a sprig of oak proper on a green background. | |
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| Unofficial | ||
| Motto | Creme De La Creme. | |
| Symbology | The Alderney is an extinct breed of dairy cattle. It originated in, and is named for, the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands. | |
| Length overall | 280 ft 6in |
| Beam | 22 ft |
| Depth | 16ft |
| Displacement | 1385 tons (surface) |
| 1620 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 350 ft |
| Speed | Surface 18.5 knots (design) |
| Submarged 8 knots (design) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes (2 external) |
| 4 x 21 inch stern tubes (2 external) | |
| 20 torpedoes carried | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| 1 x 20mm Qerlikon cannon | |
| 3 x 0.303in machine-guns | |
| Endurance | Surface: 10 500 miles at 11 knots (design) |
| Submerged: 16 miles at 8 knots or 90 miles at 3 knots | |
| Complement | 6 Officers and 55 Ratings. |
| 6 Officers and 58 Ratings after modernisation. |
| Class: | 1944 - 1952: XE Class |
| Built By: | Markham and Co (Derbyshire) |
| Build Group: | XE |
| Fate: | |
| Sank after a collision in Loch Striven on the morning of 6th March 1945. XE-11 had been calibrating instruments in Loch Striven. The Submarine was changing depth and was in collision with a Ministry of War Transport Boom Defence Vessel (previously the Fleetwood Steam Trawler Norina which was laying buoys. The Commanding Officer and two ratings were lost. | |
An Angry Crowd swarms around a small prison. Inside General Sajid Khan stares stoically at his captors. Responsible for genocide and the mass murder of thousands of people, the deposed Warlord is being held unil trial.
The guards scramble but Khan remains calm. One week later Naval Headquarters are told that there's an explosion on an Australian Cruise Ship. This is the second attack and no one knows who is responsible, although Kahn goes missing.
Captain Will Hanley discovers that Kahn has spent his considerable fortune on a renovated Russian Submarine, complete with nuclear missiles which he plans to launch at a city untouched by terrorism, Los Angeles.
Hanley manages to find Khan but the action culmintes in an explosive battle alongside a dangerous reef, where failure will have an unbearable cost.
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 3rd Nov, 1945 | |
| Symbology | From the arms of the Channel Island of the same name. (The ship is affiliated). |
|
| Design Notes | A gold lion rampant, ensigned with a royal crown in red, holding in his dexter paw a sprig of oak proper on a green background. | |
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||
| Unofficial | ||
| Motto | Creme De La Creme. | |
| Symbology | The Alderney is an extinct breed of dairy cattle. It originated in, and is named for, the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands. | |
| Length overall | 280 ft 6in |
| Beam | 22 ft |
| Depth | 16ft |
| Displacement | 1385 tons (surface) |
| 1620 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 350 ft |
| Speed | Surface 18.5 knots (design) |
| Submarged 8 knots (design) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes (2 external) |
| 4 x 21 inch stern tubes (2 external) | |
| 20 torpedoes carried | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| 1 x 20mm Qerlikon cannon | |
| 3 x 0.303in machine-guns | |
| Endurance | Surface: 10 500 miles at 11 knots (design) |
| Submerged: 16 miles at 8 knots or 90 miles at 3 knots | |
| Complement | 6 Officers and 55 Ratings. |
| 6 Officers and 58 Ratings after modernisation. |
| Class: | 1944 - 1952: XE Class |
| Built By: | Markham and Co (Derbyshire) |
| Build Group: | XE |
| Fate: | |
| Sank after a collision in Loch Striven on the morning of 6th March 1945. XE-11 had been calibrating instruments in Loch Striven. The Submarine was changing depth and was in collision with a Ministry of War Transport Boom Defence Vessel (previously the Fleetwood Steam Trawler Norina which was laying buoys. The Commanding Officer and two ratings were lost. | |
An Angry Crowd swarms around a small prison. Inside General Sajid Khan stares stoically at his captors. Responsible for genocide and the mass murder of thousands of people, the deposed Warlord is being held unil trial.
The guards scramble but Khan remains calm. One week later Naval Headquarters are told that there's an explosion on an Australian Cruise Ship. This is the second attack and no one knows who is responsible, although Kahn goes missing.
Captain Will Hanley discovers that Kahn has spent his considerable fortune on a renovated Russian Submarine, complete with nuclear missiles which he plans to launch at a city untouched by terrorism, Los Angeles.
Hanley manages to find Khan but the action culmintes in an explosive battle alongside a dangerous reef, where failure will have an unbearable cost.
13 pages added or updated in the last 14 month
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