HMS Rainbow (N16)
Appearance
![]() ![]() HMS Rainbow at sea, bow and stern images
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History | |
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Name | HMS Rainbow |
Ordered | 28 January 1929 |
Builder | Chatham Dockyard |
Laid down | 24 July 1929 |
Launched | 14 May 1930 |
Commissioned | 18 January 1932 |
Fate | Believed sunk on 4 October 1940 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | list error: <br /> list (help) 1,763 long tons (1,791 t) surfaced 2,030 long tons (2,060 t) submerged |
Length | 287 ft (87 m) |
Beam | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
Draught | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
Propulsion | list error: <br /> list (help) Diesel-electric 2 × Admiralty diesel engines, 4,640 hp 2 × electric motors, 1,635 hp 2 shafts |
Speed | list error: <br /> list (help) 17.5 knots (20.1 mph; 32.4 km/h) surfaced 8.6 kn (9.9 mph; 15.9 km/h) submerged |
Complement | 53 |
Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) • 8 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) with 14 reloads • 1 × 4.7 in QF Mark IX deck gun |
Notes | Pennant number: N16 |
HMS Rainbow was a Rainbow-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was designed as a long range patrol submarine. She served in the Far East until 1940.
She left for a patrol off Calabria on 23 September 1940 [1] and was due to be back in Alexandria on 16 October , she was last heard from on 25 September. She is believed to have been sunk on 4 October in a collision with the Italian merchant ship, Antonietta Costa, which reported striking an underwater object at 03:30 on 4 October.[2]
Until 1988 it was believed that she had been sunk by Italian submarine Enrico Toti, the sunken ship was eventually determined to be HMS Triad (N53).[1]
References
- ^ a b Brian Izzard (November 2009). Gamp VC. Haynes Publishing. p. 35. ISBN978-1-84425-725-6.
- ^ http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3405.html