HMS Alderney at Plymouth Sound in 1954.
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Alderney |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness |
Laid down | 6 February 1945 |
Launched | 25 June 1945 |
Commissioned | 10 December 1946 |
Decommissioned | November 1967 |
Identification | Pennant number P416 |
Fate | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 6 June 1972 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Amphion-class submarine |
Displacement | 1,360/1,590 tons (surface/submerged) |
Length | 293 ft 6 in (89.46 m) |
Beam | 22 ft 4 in (6.81 m) |
Draught | 18 ft 1 in (5.51 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × 2,150 hp (1,600 kW) Admiralty ML 8-cylinder diesel engine, 2 × 625 hp (466 kW) electric motors for submergence driving two shafts |
Speed | 18.5 kn (34.3 km/h) surface, 8 kn (15 km/h) submerged |
Range |
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Test depth | 350 ft (110 m) |
Complement | 60 |
Armament |
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HMS Alderney (P416/S66), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow and launched 25 June 1945[1] by Mrs Molly Wallis, wife of Sir Barnes Wallis. She was the 12th of the class and was scrapped in 1972.