| 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: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | S1 |
| Fate: | |
| 7 November 1940 - Mined of St. Catherine's Point Isle of Wight | |
When the nuclear-powered submarine - Tiger Shark - sets out to investigate a baffling series of naval disasters near the Arctic Circle, its fearless crew quickly find themselves besieged by electrical storms, under attack from an unidentified floating saucer, and in the grip of hairy tentacles in this superb science-fiction potboiler from the golden age of Sci-Fi!
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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: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | S1 |
| Fate: | |
| 7 November 1940 - Mined of St. Catherine's Point Isle of Wight | |
When the nuclear-powered submarine - Tiger Shark - sets out to investigate a baffling series of naval disasters near the Arctic Circle, its fearless crew quickly find themselves besieged by electrical storms, under attack from an unidentified floating saucer, and in the grip of hairy tentacles in this superb science-fiction potboiler from the golden age of Sci-Fi!
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