| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Amphion |
| Fate: | Mounted on jetty Dolphin II as part of Submarine Museum June 1981 |
| TBA: | Lieutenant | Kenneth Henry Martin | |
| 1954: | Lieutenant Commander | Andrew Thomas Chalmers | DSC MID |
| 1968: | Lieutenant Commander | Charles Nixon-Eckersall | |
| 1970: | Commander | Robert Forsyth |
November 1968, while diving at 450ft off Gibraltar, Alliance suffered an explosion and fire in the motor-room which destroyed the boat's electrical switchboards and propulsion.
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| Official (Broad Design) | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 12th Oct, 1945 | |
| Motto | Undivided | |
| Symbology | A French prize vessel of 1795. The design alludes to the Forces of the Crown. | |
| Design Notes | In front of two conjoined wings are two white swords in saltire with white pommels and hilts of gold surmounted by an anchor also in gold on a blue background. | |
| 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. |
Further Reading |
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| Royal Navy Submarine Manual |
Peter Goodwin Launched in 1945 and commissioned two years later, submarine HMS Alliance was built for service with the Royal Navy in the Far East. Alliance had a long and distinguished career of more than 28 years that took her all over the world. |
| Class: | 1956 - 1988: Porpoise Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | P2 |
| Fate: | |
| 1983 towed to a position off Falmouth and scuttled for use as diver training in salvage exercises. still in use | |
When American submarine Swordfish is torpedoed the survivors are picked up by a passing German U-boat but an outbreak of meningitis threatens all aboard.
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| Official (Broad Design) | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 12th Oct, 1945 | |
| Motto | Undivided | |
| Symbology | A French prize vessel of 1795. The design alludes to the Forces of the Crown. | |
| Design Notes | In front of two conjoined wings are two white swords in saltire with white pommels and hilts of gold surmounted by an anchor also in gold on a blue background. | |
| 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. |
Further Reading |
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| Royal Navy Submarine Manual |
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Peter Goodwin Launched in 1945 and commissioned two years later, submarine HMS Alliance was built for service with the Royal Navy in the Far East. Alliance had a long and distinguished career of more than 28 years that took her all over the world. |
| Class: | 1956 - 1988: Porpoise Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | P2 |
| Fate: | |
| 1983 towed to a position off Falmouth and scuttled for use as diver training in salvage exercises. still in use | |
When American submarine Swordfish is torpedoed the survivors are picked up by a passing German U-boat but an outbreak of meningitis threatens all aboard.
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