| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSBN2 |
Keel Layed by George Younger, Secretary of State for Defence Rolled out and Named by Lady Newman, wife of Vice Admiral Sir Roy Newman, flag Officer Plymouth
Around 2005 HMS Victorious underwent a major overhaul at Devonport, during which her reactor was refitted with a new core, Core H, which will power her through the rest of her service life without the need to refuel.
Victorious, like her three sisters, has two captains and two crews, known as Port and Starboard. While one is manning the boat on patrol, the other can squeeze in some training and leave before they take their turn out at sea.
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| Official |
| Length overall | 149.9m |
| Beam | 12.8m |
| Draught | 12m |
| Displacement | 15900 tons (submerged) |
| Speed | 25 knots (submerged) |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Propulsion | Pump jet propulsor |
| Armament | 16 x Lockheed Trident 2 (D5) (UGM-133A) |
| 4 x Torpedo tubes for Tigerfish or Spearfish torpedoes | |
| RNSH (Royal Navy Sub-Harpoon) anti-ship missiles | |
| Reactor | 1 x Rolls Royce PWR-2 |
| Turbines | 2 x GEC Turbines |
| Generators | 2 x WH Allen turbo generators. 2 Paxman diesel alternators (2,700 hp) |
| Power | 27,500 shp |
| Endurance | 8-9 years |
| Countermeasures | 2 x SSE Mk 10 Launchers for Type 2066 and 2071 decoys |
| ESM; Racal UAP 3, intercept | |
| Sensors | Type 2046 Towed array |
| Type 2054, 2043 & 2082 sonar | |
| Dowly Sema SMCS Combat Data System | |
| Dowty tactical control system SAFS 3 FCS. | |
| Type 1007 Navigation radar | |
| Complement | 135 (2 crews) |
| Class: | 1942 - 1946: X Class |
| Built By: | Marshall (Tyne) |
| Build Group: | X |
| Fate: | |
| Preserved as part of the RN submarine Musuem Fort Block house Gosport | |
An intense dramatisation of a long-suppressed Cold War anecdote, K-19: The Widowmaker is the first big Hollywood film to view the conflict through a Soviet periscope, casting Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson (with slight accents) as patriotic Russians.
In 1961, as NATO deploys long-range nuclear attack submarines, the Kremlin forces the Russian Navy to follow suit, whether they're ready or not. Ford takes over from popular skipper Neeson in command of the eponymous submarine, riding the men hard through a missile test, and then coping with an escalating series of crises as a jerry-built reactor threatens to melt down (and perhaps start World War III).
Though the political specifics are fresh, this has all the expected elements of a sub movie, citing everything from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Das Boot to Crimson Tide and The Caine Mutiny as sailors bristle mutinously under a marine martinet. This, along with inept engineering and ideological interference, prompts disaster.
Director Kathryn Bigelow, the most undervalued talent in Hollywood, is in her element with heroic men under pressure, and a terrific central stretch has comrades trying to fix the reactor even though they've been given the wrong protective gear and start coming down with radiation sickness as they work.
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|
| Official |
| Length overall | 149.9m |
| Beam | 12.8m |
| Draught | 12m |
| Displacement | 15900 tons (submerged) |
| Speed | 25 knots (submerged) |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Propulsion | Pump jet propulsor |
| Armament | 16 x Lockheed Trident 2 (D5) (UGM-133A) |
| 4 x Torpedo tubes for Tigerfish or Spearfish torpedoes | |
| RNSH (Royal Navy Sub-Harpoon) anti-ship missiles | |
| Reactor | 1 x Rolls Royce PWR-2 |
| Turbines | 2 x GEC Turbines |
| Generators | 2 x WH Allen turbo generators. 2 Paxman diesel alternators (2,700 hp) |
| Power | 27,500 shp |
| Endurance | 8-9 years |
| Countermeasures | 2 x SSE Mk 10 Launchers for Type 2066 and 2071 decoys |
| ESM; Racal UAP 3, intercept | |
| Sensors | Type 2046 Towed array |
| Type 2054, 2043 & 2082 sonar | |
| Dowly Sema SMCS Combat Data System | |
| Dowty tactical control system SAFS 3 FCS. | |
| Type 1007 Navigation radar | |
| Complement | 135 (2 crews) |
| Class: | 1942 - 1946: X Class |
| Built By: | Marshall (Tyne) |
| Build Group: | X |
| Fate: | |
| Preserved as part of the RN submarine Musuem Fort Block house Gosport | |
An intense dramatisation of a long-suppressed Cold War anecdote, K-19: The Widowmaker is the first big Hollywood film to view the conflict through a Soviet periscope, casting Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson (with slight accents) as patriotic Russians.
In 1961, as NATO deploys long-range nuclear attack submarines, the Kremlin forces the Russian Navy to follow suit, whether they're ready or not. Ford takes over from popular skipper Neeson in command of the eponymous submarine, riding the men hard through a missile test, and then coping with an escalating series of crises as a jerry-built reactor threatens to melt down (and perhaps start World War III).
Though the political specifics are fresh, this has all the expected elements of a sub movie, citing everything from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Das Boot to Crimson Tide and The Caine Mutiny as sailors bristle mutinously under a marine martinet. This, along with inept engineering and ideological interference, prompts disaster.
Director Kathryn Bigelow, the most undervalued talent in Hollywood, is in her element with heroic men under pressure, and a terrific central stretch has comrades trying to fix the reactor even though they've been given the wrong protective gear and start coming down with radiation sickness as they work.
13 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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