Parthian-class submarine
HMS Phoenix, 1939
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Class overview | |
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Name | Parthian class |
Operators | Royal Navy |
Preceded by | Odin class |
Succeeded by | Rainbow class |
In commission | 1929–1946 |
Completed | 6 |
Lost | 5 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 289 ft (88 m) |
Beam | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
Draught | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
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Complement | 53 |
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The Parthian-class submarine or P class was a class of six submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. They were designed as long-range patrol submarines for the Far East. These boats were almost identical to the Odin class, the only difference being a different bow shape.
Boats
Name | Builder | Launched | Fate |
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Pandora (ex-Python) | Vickers, Barrow | 22 August 1929 | Sunk by Italian aircraft in harbour at Valletta, Malta, 1 April 1942; Raised but not repaired, September 1943; Hulk scrapped, 1955 |
Parthian | Chatham Dockyard | 22 June 1929 | Lost in the Adriatic, presumed mined, 6 August – 11 August 1943 |
Perseus | Vickers, Barrow | 22 May 1929 | Mined in the Ionian Sea between the islands of Kefallonia and Zakynthos off the west coast of Greece, 6 December 1941 |
Phoenix | Cammell Laird | 3 October 1929 | Presumed sunk in depth charge attack by the Italian torpedo boat Albatros off the coast of Sicily, 16 July 1940 |
Poseidon | Vickers, Barrow | 21 June 1929 | Sank in accidental collision with a merchant steamer, 9 June 1931; Wreck alleged to have been salvaged by China during 1970s |
Proteus | Vickers, Barrow | 23 July 1929 | Scrapped at Troon, March 1946 |