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Parthian-class submarine

{{Short description|Type of British submarines in service after WWI and during WWII}}

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|Ship caption= HMS Phoenix, 1939

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|Name=Parthian class

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|Class before={{sclass|Odin|submarine|4}}

|Class after={{sclass|Rainbow|submarine|4}}

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|In commission range=1929–1946

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|Total ships completed=6

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|Total ships lost=5

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|Ship type=Submarine

|Ship displacement=*{{convert|1760|LT|t|0|lk=in|abbr=on}} surfaced

  • {{convert|2040|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} submerged

|Ship length= {{convert|289|ft|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship beam= {{convert|30|ft|m|abbr=on}}

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|Ship draught={{convert|16|ft|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship propulsion=*Diesel-electric

  • 2 × Admiralty diesel engines, {{convert|4,640|hp|abbr=on}}
  • 2 × electric motors, {{convert|1,635|hp|abbr=on}}
  • 2 shafts

|Ship speed=*{{convert|17.5|kn|mph km/h|lk=in}} surfaced

  • {{convert|8.6|kn|mph km/h|abbr=on}} submerged

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|Ship complement=53

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|Ship armament=*8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) with 14 reloads

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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 {{sclass|Odin|submarine|4}}, the only difference being a different bow shape.

Boats

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scope="col" | Name

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scope="row" | {{HMS|Pandora|N42|2}} ({{nowrap|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

scope="row" | {{HMS|Parthian|N75|2}}

| Chatham Dockyard

| 22 June 1929

| Lost in the Adriatic, presumed mined, 6 August{{snd}}11 August 1943

scope="row" | {{HMS|Perseus|N36|2}}

| 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

scope="row" | {{HMS|Phoenix|N96|2}}

| 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

scope="row" | {{HMS|Poseidon|1929|2}}

| 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{{cite news |last= Ryall |first= Julian |date= 12 June 2009 |place= Weihai |title= China accused of secretly salvaging sunken British submarine containing 18 lost sailors |publication-place= London |newspaper= The Daily Telegraph |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5515941/China-accused-of-secretly-salvaging-sunken-British-submarine-containing-18-lost-sailors.html |access-date= 15 September 2021}}

scope="row" |{{HMS|Proteus|N29|2}}

| Vickers, Barrow

| 23 July 1929

| Scrapped at Troon, March 1946

References

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Bibliography

  • {{cite book|last=Akermann|first=Paul|title=Encyclopaedia of British Submarines 1901–1955|edition=reprint of the 1989|year=2002|publisher=Periscope Publishing|location=Penzance, Cornwall|isbn=1-904381-05-7}}
  • {{cite book|last=Bagnasco |first=Erminio |title=Submarines of World War Two |year=1977 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=0-87021-962-6}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Caruana|first1=Joseph|year=2012 |title=Emergency Victualling of Malta During WWII|journal=Warship International|volume=LXIX |issue=4 |pages=357–364 |issn=0043-0374}}
  • {{Cite Colledge2006}}
  • {{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=Greenwich, UK|year=1980|isbn=0-85177-146-7}}
  • {{cite book|last=McCartney|first=Innes|location=Oxford, UK|title=British Submarines 1939–1945|series=New Vanguard|volume=129|year=2006|publisher=Osprey|isbn=1-84603-007-2}}

External links

{{Commons category|Parthian class submarine}}

  • {{ cite web | url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/parthian.htm | title = Parthian class submarine | work = Battleships-cruisers.co.uk | access-date = 2006-12-02 }}
  • {{ cite web | url = http://rnsubs.co.uk/boats/subs/parthian-class.html | title = Parthian class | work =rnsubs.co.uk|access-date = 27 September 2022}}
  • {{cite web | url = https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3404.html| title = HMS Pandora | work = Uboat.net | access-date = 27 September 2022 }}

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