HMS Proteus (N29)
 HMS Proteus (N29)
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Proteus |
| Ordered | 7 February 1928 |
| Builder | Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down | 18 July 1928 |
| Launched | 23 August 1929 |
| Completed | 22 August 1929 |
| Commissioned | 5 May 1930 |
| Decommissioned | 30 June 1944 |
| Fate | Scrapped at Troon, Feb-Mar 1946 |
| Notes | Used for patrol mainly within the Mediterranean Sea. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Template:Sclass- |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 289 ft (88 m) |
| Beam | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Draught | 15 ft 11 in (4.85 m) |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 8,500 nmi (15,700 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Complement | 53 |
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| Notes | Pennant number: N29 |
HMS Proteus was a Parthian-class submarine designed and built by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy, and was launched on 22 August 1929. Like other submarines in her class she served in China before the war.
Based at Alexandria Proteus engaged and sank 17 German and Italian merchant ships, troopships, tankers and torpedo boats during her service in the Mediterranean in the Second World War. Her attack on the troop transport ship Ithaka is thought to be the first radar guided submarine attack.[1] HMS Proteus was the longest surviving Parthian-class submarine and the only Parthian class submarine to survive the war.
Proteus had a total of nine commanders during the war.
References
- ^ "Commander Jeremy Nash, submarine commander involved in hazardous wartime actions around the Greek islands and in the South China Seas – obituary". Daily Telegraph. 3 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
Bibliography
- Akermann, Paul (2002). Encyclopaedia of British Submarines 1901–1955 (reprint of the 1989 ed.). Penzance, Cornwall: Periscope Publishing. ISBN 1-904381-05-7.
- Bagnasco, Erminio (1977). Submarines of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-962-6.
- Caruana, Joseph (2012). "Emergency Victualling of Malta During WWII". Warship International. LXIX (4): 357–364. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- McCartney, Innes (2006). British Submarines 1939–1945. New Vanguard. Vol. 129. Oxford, UK: Osprey. ISBN 1-84603-007-2.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMS Proteus (N29).
- IWM Interview with Philip Francis, who commanded HMS Proteus in 1942
- Information on Proteus
- Information on the Parthian Submarine class. Includes Information on Proteus