| Built By: | Scotts (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | O2a |
| Fate: | Sold 1992 - scapped in Grimsby at Doigs old ship yard |
| TBA: | Lieutenant Commander | R J F Turner | |
| 1962: | Lieutenant Commander | N Gilbert |
| 14-01-1960 | Laid down by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company |
| 15-05-1960 | Launched by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company |
| 20-08-1962 | Commissioned |
| 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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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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| 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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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.
20 pages added or updated in the last 9 month
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