HMS Vigorous (P74)
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Vigorous |
| Builder | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down | 14th Dec. 1942 |
| Launched | 15th Oct. 1943 |
| Commissioned | 13th Jan. 1944 |
| Identification | pennant number P74 |
| Fate | Scrapped at Stockton-on-Tees, 23rd Dec. 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | V-class submarine |
| Displacement | list error: <br /> list (help) 545 tons (standard - surfaced) 658 tons (full load - surfaced) 740 tons (submerged) |
| Length | 204 ft 6 in (62.33 m) |
| Beam | 16 ft 1 in (4.90 m) |
| Draught | 15 ft 3 in (4.65 m) |
| Propulsion | list error: <br /> list (help) 2 shaft diesel-electric 2 Paxman Ricardo diesel generators + electric motors 615 hp (459 kW) / 825 hp (615 kW) |
| Speed | list error: <br /> list (help) 11.25 knots (20.84 km/h) surfaced 10 knots (19 km/h) submerged |
| Complement | 33 |
| Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) 4 x bow internal 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes 8-10 torpedoes 1 x 3-inch (76 mm) deck gun |
HMS Vigorous was a V-class submarine of the Royal Navy (RN). Pennant number P74.
The boat was laid down by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness on 14th December 1942. She was launched on 15th October 1943, and commissioned into the RN on 13th January 1944.
The submarine operated during the late stages of World War II. On the 26th Sep. 1944, HMS Vigorous (Lt. J.C. Ogle, DSC, RN) torpedoed and sank the German merchant Salomea (751 BRT, former Greek Evangelos Nomikos) off Kassandra, Greece.
The submarine was decommissioned after the war and was broken up for scrap at Stockton-on-Tees, 23rd Dec. 1949
Notes
References
- Cassells, Vic (2000). The Destroyers: their battles and their badges. East Roseville, NSW: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7318-0893-2. OCLC 46829686.
- "HMS Vampire (P 72)". uboat.net. Retrieved 2007-02-02.