| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | O2a |
| Fate: | Orpheus was paid of in January 1987. Broken Up 1994 |
Harbour Service 1987
| 17-11-1960 | Launched |
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 1928 | |
| Motto | Vestigia nulla retrorsum. (There is no retreat.) | |
| Symbology | Orpheus was a master musician who played a lyre given him by Apollo. His music could charm trees, stones, and wild animals. He used his music to try and rescue his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld. On the return journey he looked back and so lost her, even though he had been warned not to by the oracle. | |
| Design Notes | A golden Greek lyre on a field party per pale black and blue. | |
| Length overall | 295 ft 3 inch |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft |
| Displacement | 2030 tons (surface) |
| 2410 tons (submerged) | |
| Speed | 12 knots (surface) |
| 17 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (i) (30 torpedoes) | |
| Complement | 6 Officers and 62 Others |
| Note | (i) Mines can be carried in lieu of torpedoes |
| Class: | 1944 - 1952: XE Class |
| Built By: | Broadbent (Huddersfield) |
| Build Group: | XE |
| Fate: | |
| Sunk and used a bottom target 1954 off Portland. Later raised and preserved at Chatham. | |
Part of the military documentary series examining each aspect of the armed forces.
This volume looks at the history and role of the submarine in the modern navy. Starting out as experimental oddities in the American Civil War, the most advanced submarines in the present day hold a crew of several hundred, can remain at sea for a year at a time, and are capable of launching dozens of thermonuclear missles at any spot in the world.
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 1928 | |
| Motto | Vestigia nulla retrorsum. (There is no retreat.) | |
| Symbology | Orpheus was a master musician who played a lyre given him by Apollo. His music could charm trees, stones, and wild animals. He used his music to try and rescue his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld. On the return journey he looked back and so lost her, even though he had been warned not to by the oracle. | |
| Design Notes | A golden Greek lyre on a field party per pale black and blue. | |
| Length overall | 295 ft 3 inch |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft |
| Displacement | 2030 tons (surface) |
| 2410 tons (submerged) | |
| Speed | 12 knots (surface) |
| 17 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (i) (30 torpedoes) | |
| Complement | 6 Officers and 62 Others |
| Note | (i) Mines can be carried in lieu of torpedoes |
| Class: | 1944 - 1952: XE Class |
| Built By: | Broadbent (Huddersfield) |
| Build Group: | XE |
| Fate: | |
| Sunk and used a bottom target 1954 off Portland. Later raised and preserved at Chatham. | |
Part of the military documentary series examining each aspect of the armed forces.
This volume looks at the history and role of the submarine in the modern navy. Starting out as experimental oddities in the American Civil War, the most advanced submarines in the present day hold a crew of several hundred, can remain at sea for a year at a time, and are capable of launching dozens of thermonuclear missles at any spot in the world.
13 pages added or updated in the last 3 month
Please help to maintain this site by reporting any Errors, Broken Links, Information or Site Issues on this page using this button
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