HMS Aurochs (P426)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | Very late in World War II |
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 21 June 1944 |
| Launched: | 28 July 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 7 February 1947 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap on 7 February 1967. Scrapped at Troon, Scotland in February 1967. |
| 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 (1,600 kW) Admiralty ML 8-cylinder diesel engine, 2 × 625 hp (466 kW) 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 (5.6 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 AA Oerlikon 20 mm gun |
HMS Aurochs (P426), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 28 July 1945.[1] Her namesake was the aurochs (Bos primigenius), an extinct Eurasian wild ox ancestral to domestic cattle and often portrayed in cave art and heraldry.
On 17 May 1958 Aurochs was patrolling the Molucca Sea off Indonesia when an unidentified aircraft machine-gunned her.[2] No casualties or damage were sustained.[2] President Sukarno's Indonesian government told the UK's Conservative Government that its armed forces had not made the attack.[2] The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office stated that it accepted the assurance and assumed that North Celebes insurgents had carried out the attack.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Helgason, Guðmundur (1995-2011). "HMS Aurochs (P426)". uboat.net. Guðmundur Helgason. http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3643.html. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ a b c d United Kingdom, Parliamentary Debates, Commons, 1958-06-11, columns 202–203, (David Ormsby-Gore, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs). Retrieved 2011-11-21.
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