| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | P2 |
| Fate: | Painted bright orange at Portsmouth and sunk as target during 1987, some say Western Approaches some say Scotland. |
Paid off November 1978 at Gosport, served as training boat until 1981 then placed on disposal list.
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| Symbology | A deep-sea, razor-backed whale bi-coloured in the lower jaw. The body is dark brown, fading to white underneath. |
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| Design Notes | A fin whale in profile and, in chief, two swords in saltire all proper on a background of blue. |
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| Length overall | 295 ft 3 inch |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft |
| Displacement | 2030 tons (surface) |
| 2410 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 300 ft |
| Speed | 12 knots (surface) |
| 17 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 12800 miles maximum (design) |
| Surface: 3860 miles at full power or 11500 miles at 8 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 64 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 8 miles at 9 knots or 66 miles at 6 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (24 torpedoes carried) | |
| Complement | 6 Officers and 65 Others |
| Class: | 1927 - 1946: Parthian Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | P |
| Fate: | |
| Phoenix sailed on patrol in the Central Mediterranean from Alexandria on 3rd July 1940. A long-range attack was made on two Italian Battle Ships and four destroyer escorts and one hit was claimed. Phoenix continued on to the patrol area off Sicily where a minefield was to be laid. The Submarine was lost with all hands on 10th July 1940, probably after a depth charge attack by the Italian Torpedo Boat Albatros off the San Croce Lighthouse at Augusta in Sicily. | |
A special group of navy divers is created when a disabled Nazi warship is discovered in a fjord in Norway. Commander Bolton (James Caan) is the Canadian expert designated to train the new unit. Their mission is to plant a bomb on the warship as it undergoes repairs. The hard-driving Bolton encounters resentment from the British soldiers he trains, but he ultimately earns their respect as a leader. Their intense training operation is interrupted by an attack of Nazi paratroopers just before the unit leaves for Norway. Spectacular underwater photography is seen in this World War II adventure story based on an actual mission
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| Official | ||
| Symbology | A deep-sea, razor-backed whale bi-coloured in the lower jaw. The body is dark brown, fading to white underneath. |
|
| Design Notes | A fin whale in profile and, in chief, two swords in saltire all proper on a background of blue. |
|
| Length overall | 295 ft 3 inch |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft |
| Displacement | 2030 tons (surface) |
| 2410 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 300 ft |
| Speed | 12 knots (surface) |
| 17 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 12800 miles maximum (design) |
| Surface: 3860 miles at full power or 11500 miles at 8 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 64 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 8 miles at 9 knots or 66 miles at 6 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (24 torpedoes carried) | |
| Complement | 6 Officers and 65 Others |
| Class: | 1927 - 1946: Parthian Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | P |
| Fate: | |
| Phoenix sailed on patrol in the Central Mediterranean from Alexandria on 3rd July 1940. A long-range attack was made on two Italian Battle Ships and four destroyer escorts and one hit was claimed. Phoenix continued on to the patrol area off Sicily where a minefield was to be laid. The Submarine was lost with all hands on 10th July 1940, probably after a depth charge attack by the Italian Torpedo Boat Albatros off the San Croce Lighthouse at Augusta in Sicily. | |
A special group of navy divers is created when a disabled Nazi warship is discovered in a fjord in Norway. Commander Bolton (James Caan) is the Canadian expert designated to train the new unit. Their mission is to plant a bomb on the warship as it undergoes repairs. The hard-driving Bolton encounters resentment from the British soldiers he trains, but he ultimately earns their respect as a leader. Their intense training operation is interrupted by an attack of Nazi paratroopers just before the unit leaves for Norway. Spectacular underwater photography is seen in this World War II adventure story based on an actual mission
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