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&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Hms_churchill_s46.jpg) HMS Churchill at sea
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Churchill |
| Namesake | Winston Churchill |
| Ordered | 21 October 1965 |
| Laid down | 30 June 1967 |
| Launched | 20 December 1968 |
| Commissioned | 15 July 1970 |
| Decommissioned | 28 February 1991 |
| Fate | Awaiting disposal |
| Badge | &sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Churchill_crest.jpg) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Churchill-class submarine |
| Displacement | 4,900 tonnes (4,823 long tons) submerged |
| Length | 86.9 m (285 ft 1 in) |
| Beam | 10.1 m (33 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 8.2 m (26 ft 11 in) |
| Propulsion | 1 Rolls-Royce PWR nuclear reactor, 1 shaft |
| Speed | 28 knots (32 mph; 52 km/h) submerged |
| Complement | 103 |
| Armament |
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HMS Churchill was the first of three Churchill-class[a] nuclear fleet submarines that served with the Royal Navy.
- ^ Hennessey & Jinks 2016, p. 291.
- ^ Friedman 2021, Chapter 7: Going Nuclear "SSN 04 and SSN 05 were described as the Repeat Valiant Class (NSR 7064)."
- ^ Blackman 1971, p. 336.
- ^ Gardiner & Chumbley 1995, p. 530.
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