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Name | Sovereign |
Ordered | 16 March 1969 |
Builder | Vickers |
Laid down | 18 September 1970 |
Launched | 17 February 1973 |
Commissioned | 11 July 1974 |
Decommissioned | 12 September 2006 |
Identification | Pennant number: S108 |
Fate | Paid off |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Swiftsure-class submarine |
Displacement | 4,900 tonnes (dived) |
Length | 82.9 m (272 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 9.8 m (32 ft 2 in) |
Draught | 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in) |
Speed | Over 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph), dived |
Complement | 116 |
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HMS Sovereign was a Swiftsure-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Royal Navy.