HMS Andrew (P423)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | Very late in World War II |
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 13 August 1945 |
| Launched: | 6 April 1946 |
| Commissioned: | 16 March 1948 |
| Fate: | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 5 May 1977. Scrapped at Plymouth later in 1977. |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,360/1,590 tons (surface/submerged) |
| Length: | 293 ft 6 in (89.46 m) |
| Beam: | 22 ft 4 in (6.81 m) |
| Draught: | 18 ft 1 in (5.51 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 2,150 hp Admiralty ML 8-cylinder diesel engine, 2 × 625 hp electric motors for submergence driving two shafts |
| Speed: | 18.5/8 knots (surface/submerged) |
| Range: | 10,500 nautical miles (19,400 km) at 11 knots (20 km/h) surfaced 16 nautical miles (30 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h) or 90 nautical miles (170 km) at 3 knots (6 km/h) submerged |
| Test depth: | 350 ft (110 m) |
| Complement: | 5 officers 55 enlisted |
| Armament: | 6 × 21" (2 external)bow torpedo tube, 4 × 21" (2 external) stern torpedo tube, containing a total of 20 torpedoes Mines: 26 1 × 4" main deck gun, 3 × 0.303 machine gun, 1 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA gun |
HMS Andrew (P423), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched on 6 April 1946.
The submarine was fitted with a 4 inch deck gun in 1964 for service during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation to counter blockade running junks.[1] The gun was fired for the last time in December 1974.[2] She was sold off in 1977 and was broken up
HMS Andrew made several claims to submarine history:
- she was the oldest submarine of the Amphion class in service
- she was the last UK submarine to carry a deck gun
- she was the last submarine designed during the Second World War remaining in service
- she was the first submarine to cross the Atlantic submerged using the "snort", in May 1953.[3] The 2,500-nautical-mile (4,600 km), 15 day trip from Bermuda to England set a new world record for continuous underwater operation.[3]
[edit] Film career
HMS Andrew was used in the 1959 film On the Beach to depict the fictional United States Navy nuclear submarine USS Sawfish because the U.S. Navy did not cooperate in the production of the film.
[edit] References
- ^ Preston, Antony (2001). The Royal Navy Submarine Service A Centennial History. Conway Maritime Press. p. 129. ISBN 0851778917.
- ^ Tall, J.J; Paul Kemp (1996). HM Submarines in Camera An Illustrated History of British Submarines. Sutton Publishing. p. 160. ISBN 0750908750.
- ^ a b John Lambert and David Hill (1986). The submarine Alliance (Anatomy of the ship series). Conway Maritime Press. p. 19. ISBN 0-85177-380-X.
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