HMS Pandora (N42)

HMS Pandora
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Pandora
Namesake	Pandora
Ordered	7 February 1928
Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow in Furness
Laid down	9 July 1928
Launched	22 August 1929
Commissioned	30 June 1930
Identification	Pennant number: N42
Fate	Sunk by aircraft, 1 April 1942
General characteristics
Class and type	Parthian-class submarine
Displacement	1,475 long tons (1,499 t) surfaced 2,040 long tons (2,070 t) submerged
Length	260 ft (79 m)
Beam	28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught	13 ft 8 in (4.17 m)
Propulsion	Diesel-electric 2 Admiralty diesel engines, 4,400 hp (3,300 kW) 2 Electric motors, 1,530 hp (1,140 kW) 2 shafts
Speed	17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) surfaced 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) submerged
Range	8,500 nmi (15,700 km; 9,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	59
Armament	8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) 1 × 4 in (102 mm) deck gun 2 × machine guns

HMS Pandora was a British Parthian-class submarine commissioned in 1930 and lost in 1942 during the Second World War. This class was the first to be fitted with Mark VIII torpedoes. On 4 July 1940 she torpedoed and sank the French aviso Rigault de Genouilly off the Algerian coast. In an extension of the Lend-Lease program, Pandora, along with three other British and French submarines, was overhauled at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the United States.^[1] She was sunk on 1 April 1942 by Junkers Ju 87 aircraft from Sturzkampfgeschwader 3 at the Valletta dockyard, Malta.