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Scorcher (P 258)

Built By: Cammell Laird (Mersey)
Build Group: S3
Fate: Scrapped Charlestown 14th September 1962.

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Commanders
1945: Lieutenant   Kenneth Steele Renshaw (RNR) DSC MID
1947: Lieutenant   Stephen Jenner
1950: Lieutenant   Geoffrey Bourne MID

1945: Indian Ocean.

Launched by Thomas Beacham, a Foreman Driller employed by Cammel Laird. Hull retained for experimental purposes 1961.

Events

 14-12-1943   Laid Down
 18-12-1944   Launched
 16-03-1945   Completed
 04-02-1956   Damaged in a collision.
 22-11-1956   Suffered a fire during exercises.

Official
S3 Specification
Length overall  217 ft
Beam  23 ft 6 inch
Depth  11 ft
Diving Depth  350 ft
Speed  Surface 15 knots (design)
  Surface 14.75 knots (service)
  Submerged 10 knots (design)
  Submerged 9 knots (service)
No. of shafts  2
Endurance  Surface: 6000 miles at 10 knots (design)
Armament (i)  6 x 21 inch bow tubes
  1 21 inch stern tube
  (13 torpedoes carried)
  1 x 3 inch gun
  3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns
  1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon
Complement  5 Officers and 43 Ratings
Note  The armament of submarines of this class varied considerably. For example: 23 boats were fitted with the six bow tubes only; 18 vessels, intended to operate in the Far East, had their 3 inch guns replaced by 4 inch guns; whilst, in some boats, the Oerlikon cannon replaced, rather than supplemented, the three machine-guns.
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