Royal Navy — Submarine
N12
HMS Clyde (N12)
Service
- as HMS Clyde1935 — July 19452,157 days of the war
River-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Clyde
- Pennant / hull number
- N12
- Builder
- Vickers Armstrongs, Barrow
- Ordered
- 1931
- Launched
- 15 March 1934
- Commissioned
- 1935
- Decommissioned
- July 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 30 July 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 2,206 long tons (2,241 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,723 long tons (2,767 t)
- Length
- 105.16 m (345 ft)
- Beam
- 8.53 m (28 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 22 knots (40.7 km/h, 25.3 mph)
- Complement
- 61
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Clyde was a River-class submarine in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number N12. She was built by Vickers Armstrongs, Barrow. Launched on 15 March 1934, she entered service in 1935.
Five ships of the class were built.
The boat displaced 2,206 long tons surfaced and 2,723 long tons submerged. She measured 105.2 m (345 ft) long with a beam of 8.5 m (28 ft). Her designed speed was 22 knots, and she carried a complement of 61.
Her main battery was one 102 mm (4 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,157 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in July 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 30 July 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shaft diesel electric
- 2 supercharged diesels 10000 hp max
- 2 electric motors 2500 hp
- Armament
- 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (bow)
- 1 × 4 in Mk XVI deck gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Clyde (N12) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — CC BY-SA 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons