| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | Amphion |
| Fate: | Scrapped in July 1971 at Inverkeithing. |
| 1946: | Lieutenant | John Evelyn Moore |
| 31-05-1944 | Laid Down |
| 18-02-1946 | Launched |
| 11-12-1946 | Completed |
| 24-06-1971 | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 24 June 1971. Scrapped at Inverkeithing |
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| Admiralty Approved | 12th Oct, 1945 | |
| Motto | The thicker the hay, the easier mowed. | |
| Symbology | Alaric was the king of the Visigoths who ravaged Rome in 1410. | |
| Design Notes | A sword with a white pommel and hilt of gold surmounted by two white scythes in saltire, on a black background. | |
| Additional Notes | The Badge and the motto have their origin in a saying by Alaric when the strength of the opposition was pointed out to him: "The thicker the hay, the easier cut." | |
| 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. |
E 55 |
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| Class: | 1911 - 1924: E Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | E3 |
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Fate: Sold 6th September 1922 |
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 12th Oct, 1945 | |
| Motto | The thicker the hay, the easier mowed. | |
| Symbology | Alaric was the king of the Visigoths who ravaged Rome in 1410. | |
| Design Notes | A sword with a white pommel and hilt of gold surmounted by two white scythes in saltire, on a black background. | |
| Additional Notes | The Badge and the motto have their origin in a saying by Alaric when the strength of the opposition was pointed out to him: "The thicker the hay, the easier cut." | |
| 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. |
E 55 |
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| Class: | 1911 - 1924: E Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | E3 |
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Fate: Sold 6th September 1922 |
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The 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is followed by governmental negligence. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
13 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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