| 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 | On the death of his wife, Eurydice, Orpheus went to Hades to recover her. 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 background party per pale black and blue. | |
| Additional Notes | The harp symbolises the mythical Greek musician Orpheus, whose music could charm wild beasts and the elements. | |
| 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 |
Regent (N 41) |
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| Class: | 1929 - 1946: Rainbow Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | R2 |
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Fate: HMS Regent is assumed to have been lost in the Adriatic Sea off Bari between the 18th and 25th April 1943. The submarine is thought to have strayed into a minefield. The entire crew of sixty-three Officers and Ratings were lost. The first of four bodies washed up near Brindisi on 1st May 1943 and was the body of an ERA dressed in overalls and wearing a DSEA escape kit. Another was washed up at Santa Andrea di Missipezza on 15th May 1943 also wearing a DSEA kit. On 16th May either an Officer or a Petty Officer was washed up at Torre Santo Stefano, north of Otranto and, on the same day, another was washed up at Castro Marina. |
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This witty and perceptive account of the early years of submarine development contains much new material and the lives of the forgotten pioneers of submarines.
It includes many wonderful inventions and even more colourful inventors, but focuses primarily on John Philip Holland, the Irish-American genius who took submarine development out of the hands of lunatics and visionaries and turned it into a deadly weapon of war
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 1928 | |
| Motto | Vestigia nulla retrorsum. (There is no retreat.) | |
| Symbology | On the death of his wife, Eurydice, Orpheus went to Hades to recover her. 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 background party per pale black and blue. | |
| Additional Notes | The harp symbolises the mythical Greek musician Orpheus, whose music could charm wild beasts and the elements. | |
| 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 |
Regent (N 41) |
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| Class: | 1929 - 1946: Rainbow Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | R2 |
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Fate: HMS Regent is assumed to have been lost in the Adriatic Sea off Bari between the 18th and 25th April 1943. The submarine is thought to have strayed into a minefield. The entire crew of sixty-three Officers and Ratings were lost. The first of four bodies washed up near Brindisi on 1st May 1943 and was the body of an ERA dressed in overalls and wearing a DSEA escape kit. Another was washed up at Santa Andrea di Missipezza on 15th May 1943 also wearing a DSEA kit. On 16th May either an Officer or a Petty Officer was washed up at Torre Santo Stefano, north of Otranto and, on the same day, another was washed up at Castro Marina. |
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This witty and perceptive account of the early years of submarine development contains much new material and the lives of the forgotten pioneers of submarines.
It includes many wonderful inventions and even more colourful inventors, but focuses primarily on John Philip Holland, the Irish-American genius who took submarine development out of the hands of lunatics and visionaries and turned it into a deadly weapon of war
13 pages added or updated in the last 3 month
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