| Built By: | Broadbent (Huddersfield) |
| Build Group: | XE |
| Fate: | Sunk and used a bottom target 1954 off Portland. |
Unofficially named Unexpected
| 15-11-1944 | Completed |
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 22nd Nov, 1955 | |
| Symbology | These manned craft strike from under the water. | |
| Design Notes | In chief, wavy white overall, two tilting spears in saltire proper, each grasped by a gold gauntlet. | |
| Additional Notes | This is a 'Type' badge assigned to all X-Craft. | |
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| Unofficial | ||
| Motto | De profundus impetavimus. (Out of the depths we have sought.) | |
| Symbology | Not anticipated, unforeseen, or surprising. | |
| Design Notes | On a field per fess wavy representing water, a mermaid affronty proper, crined, holding an infant in each arm. Colours unknown. | |
| Length overall | 51 ft 7 inch |
| Beam | 8 ft 6 inch (with charges) |
| 5 ft 9 1/2 inch (without charges) | |
| Displacement | Without Charges: 27 tons (surface) |
| Without Charges: 29 1/2 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 300 ft |
| Speed | With Charges: 6.5 knots (surface) |
| With Charges: 5 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Armament | 2 x 2-ton side charges, Limpet mines |
| Endurance | Surface: 1320 miles at 4 knots (with charges) |
| Surface 1860 miles at 4 knots (without charges) | |
| Submerged: 80 miles at 2 knots (with charges) | |
| Complement | 4 |
B 11 (I 00) |
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| Class: | 1903 - 1906: B Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | B |
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Fate: Converted to Surface Patrol Craft and renamed S11 for service on the Otranto Barrage. Bombed and sunk in harbour at Venice in 1918. Sold for scrap in Italy 1919 |
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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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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 22nd Nov, 1955 | |
| Symbology | These manned craft strike from under the water. | |
| Design Notes | In chief, wavy white overall, two tilting spears in saltire proper, each grasped by a gold gauntlet. | |
| Additional Notes | This is a 'Type' badge assigned to all X-Craft. | |
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| Unofficial | ||
| Motto | De profundus impetavimus. (Out of the depths we have sought.) | |
| Symbology | Not anticipated, unforeseen, or surprising. | |
| Design Notes | On a field per fess wavy representing water, a mermaid affronty proper, crined, holding an infant in each arm. Colours unknown. | |
| Length overall | 51 ft 7 inch |
| Beam | 8 ft 6 inch (with charges) |
| 5 ft 9 1/2 inch (without charges) | |
| Displacement | Without Charges: 27 tons (surface) |
| Without Charges: 29 1/2 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 300 ft |
| Speed | With Charges: 6.5 knots (surface) |
| With Charges: 5 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Armament | 2 x 2-ton side charges, Limpet mines |
| Endurance | Surface: 1320 miles at 4 knots (with charges) |
| Surface 1860 miles at 4 knots (without charges) | |
| Submerged: 80 miles at 2 knots (with charges) | |
| Complement | 4 |
B 11 (I 00) |
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| Class: | 1903 - 1906: B Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | B |
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Fate: Converted to Surface Patrol Craft and renamed S11 for service on the Otranto Barrage. Bombed and sunk in harbour at Venice in 1918. Sold for scrap in Italy 1919 |
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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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