Royal Navy — Submarine
HMS P311
Service
- as HMS P3117 August 1942 — 31 December 1942143 days of the war
HMS P311
Particulars
- Name
- HMS P311
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
- Ordered
- 11 June 1931
- Laid down
- 25 April 1941
- Launched
- 5 March 1942
- Commissioned
- 7 August 1942
- Fate
- Missing after 31 December 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,290 long tons (1,311 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,560 long tons (1,585 t)
- Length
- 84.12 m (276 ft)
- Beam
- 7.62 m (25 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h, 17.8 mph)
- Range
- 4,500 nmi (8,334 km)
- Complement
- 61
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS P311 was a submarine built for the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow on 25 April 1941. Launched on 5 March 1942, she entered service on 7 August 1942.
The boat displaced 1,290 long tons surfaced and 1,560 long tons submerged. She measured 84.1 m (276 ft) long with a beam of 7.6 m (25 ft). Her designed speed was 15.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 61. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 143 days of the Second World War.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Two shafts
- Twin diesel engines 2,500 hp (1.86 MW) each
- Twin electric motors 1,450 hp (1.08 MW) each
- Armament
- 6 internal forward-facing 21 in torpedo tubes
- 2 external forward-facing torpedo tubes
- 2 external amidships rear-facing torpedo tubes
- 1 external rear-facing torpedo tubes
- 6 reload torpedoes
- 1 x 4 inch deck gun
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS P311 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Ministry of Information official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//31/media-31786/large.jpg This photograph TR 526 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons