History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Vox |
Namesake | Latin for "Voice" |
Builder | Vickers (Barrow) |
Yard number | V2 |
Laid down | 19 December 1942 |
Launched | 28 September 1943 |
Commissioned | 20 December 1943 |
Identification | P 73 |
Honors and awards | Aegean 1944[1] |
Fate | Scrapped at Cochin in 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | V-class submarine |
Length | 195 ft (59 m) |
Beam | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
Draft | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
Speed |
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Range | 4,050 mi (6,520 km) (surface); 170 mi (270 km) (submerged) |
Crew | 33 |
Armament |
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HMS Vox (P73) was a Royal Navy V-class submarine that served in the latter part of World War II, from 1943 to 1946, before it was scrapped at Cochin. An earlier HMS Vox had been transferred to France as Curie.