| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Excalibur |
| Fate: | Broken Up 1970 |
Laid Down in 1952
Excalibur was built at a cost of 1,142,000 pound
| 25-02-1956 | Launched |
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| Admiralty Approved | 8th Aug, 1946 | |
| Motto | Deo duce ferro comitante. (God is my leader and his sword my companion.) | |
| Symbology | The sword in the stone from Arthurian legend. | |
| Design Notes | A rock proper sits upon a green mound wherein is fixed a gold-hilted sword enfiled with an antique gold crown against a field of blue. | |
| Additional Notes | Excalibur and Explorer were so named to indicate that they were EXperimental submarines. | |
| Length overall | 225 ft 6 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 8 inch |
| Draught | 11 ft |
| Propulsion | High Test Peroxide (HTP) steam raising plant driving 15,000 shp steam turbines (submerged) |
| Diesel/Electric (surfaced) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Displacement | 780 tons (surface) |
| 1120 tons (submerged) | |
| Speed | 25 knots (surface) |
| 25 knots (submerged) | |
| Armament | None |
| Complement | 49 |
Sentinel (P 256) |
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | S3 |
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Fate: Sold 28th February 1962. Scrapped Gillingham |
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Television drama starring David Jason. 40 years after a British submarine goes missing at the end of the war, it re-appears, and the British government send the remaining crew member (Jason) with a new crew to trace the sub's last happenings. But the new crew start showing characteristics of the old crew.
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 8th Aug, 1946 | |
| Motto | Deo duce ferro comitante. (God is my leader and his sword my companion.) | |
| Symbology | The sword in the stone from Arthurian legend. | |
| Design Notes | A rock proper sits upon a green mound wherein is fixed a gold-hilted sword enfiled with an antique gold crown against a field of blue. | |
| Additional Notes | Excalibur and Explorer were so named to indicate that they were EXperimental submarines. | |
| Length overall | 225 ft 6 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 8 inch |
| Draught | 11 ft |
| Propulsion | High Test Peroxide (HTP) steam raising plant driving 15,000 shp steam turbines (submerged) |
| Diesel/Electric (surfaced) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Displacement | 780 tons (surface) |
| 1120 tons (submerged) | |
| Speed | 25 knots (surface) |
| 25 knots (submerged) | |
| Armament | None |
| Complement | 49 |
Sentinel (P 256) |
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | S3 |
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Fate: Sold 28th February 1962. Scrapped Gillingham |
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Television drama starring David Jason. 40 years after a British submarine goes missing at the end of the war, it re-appears, and the British government send the remaining crew member (Jason) with a new crew to trace the sub's last happenings. But the new crew start showing characteristics of the old crew.
11 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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