French submarine Curie (P67)

For other ships with the same name, see French submarine Curie and HMS Vox.

Curie starts out from Holy Loch on her first big patrol, 20 August 1943.
History
NameVox / Curie
BuilderVickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down29 April 1942
Launched23 January 1943
Commissioned2 May 1943
Out of service2 May 1943 transferred to FNFL
ReinstatedJuly 1946 returned to Royal Navy
FateScrapped, May 1949 at Milford Haven
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General characteristics
Displacement
  • Surfaced - 540 tons standard, 630 tons full load
  • Submerged - 740 tons
Length196 ft 9 in (59.97 m)
Beam16 ft 1 in (4.90 m)
Draught15 ft 2 in (4.62 m)
Propulsion
  • 2 shaft diesel-electric
  • 2 Paxman-Ricardo diesel generators + electric motors
  • 615 / 825 hp
Speed
  • 11.25 knots (20.84 km/h; 12.95 mph) max surfaced
  • 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) max submerged
Complement4 officers, 33 men (in French service)
Armament

The French submarine Curie was a British-built U-class submarine, a member of the third group of that class to be built. Laid down as HMS Vox for the Royal Navy she was transferred to the Free French Naval Forces on the day she was commissioned, where she served as Curie from 1943 to 1946, but retaining her pennant number of P67.[1] When P67 returned to the Royal Navy in July 1946 she re-assumed the name Vox.[2]

  1. ^ "HMS Vox". rnsubs.co.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  2. ^ "British Submarines of WWII website". Archived from the original on 30 June 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2007.