| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Amphion |
| Fate: | Cancelled |
| 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. |
H 52 |
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| Class: | 1917 - 1945: H Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | H21 |
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Fate: Sold to the Breakers November 1927 and then sold on to a film company. Disguised as a U-Boat for the movie 'The Q-Ships' and sunk of Eddystone Lighthouse by gunfire in January 1928 |
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Combat veteran Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his second-in-command Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington) are the chief officers on board US nuclear submarine Crimson Tide.
They are heading for Russia, ready to intervene in an escalating crisis which could result in the outbreak of World War 3. When they then receive orders to launch their missiles, Ramsay and Hunter clash over the validity of the command and mutiny ensues.
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| 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. |
H 52 |
|
| Class: | 1917 - 1945: H Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | H21 |
|
Fate: Sold to the Breakers November 1927 and then sold on to a film company. Disguised as a U-Boat for the movie 'The Q-Ships' and sunk of Eddystone Lighthouse by gunfire in January 1928 |
|
Combat veteran Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his second-in-command Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington) are the chief officers on board US nuclear submarine Crimson Tide.
They are heading for Russia, ready to intervene in an escalating crisis which could result in the outbreak of World War 3. When they then receive orders to launch their missiles, Ramsay and Hunter clash over the validity of the command and mutiny ensues.
12 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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