HMS Aurochs (P426)

HMS Aurochs
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Aurochs
Namesake	Aurochs
Ordered	Very late in World War II
Builder	Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down	21 June 1944
Launched	28 July 1945
Commissioned	7 February 1947
Decommissioned	1966
Identification	Pennant number P246
Fate	Sold for scrap on 7 February 1967. Scrapped at Troon, Scotland in February 1967.
General characteristics
Class and type	Amphion-class submarine
Displacement	1,360 long tons (1,382 t) surfaced 1,590 long tons (1,616 t) 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 engines 2 × 625 hp (466 kW) electric motors 2 shafts
Speed	18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph) surfaced 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) submerged
Range	10,500 nautical miles (19,400 km) at 11 knots (20 km/h) surfaced 16 nautical miles (30 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h) or 90 nautical miles (170 km) at 3 knots (5.6 km/h) submerged
Test depth	350 ft (110 m)
Complement	60
Armament	6 × 21 inch (533 mm) (2 external) bow torpedo tubes 4 × 21 in (2 external) stern torpedo tubes 20 torpedoes 26 × Mines 1 × 4 in (102 mm) main deck gun 3 × 0.303 in (7.70 mm) machine guns 1 × 20 mm AA Oerlikon 20 mm gun

HMS Aurochs (P426/S26), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 28 July 1945.^[1] Her namesake was the aurochs (Bos primigenius), an extinct Eurasian wild ox ancestral to domestic cattle and often portrayed in cave art and heraldry.