HMS Pandora (N42)
- Displacement
- 1,475 long tons (1,499 t)
- Length
- 79.25 m (260 ft)
- Beam
- 8.53 m (28 ft)
- Speed
- 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h, 20.1 mph)
- Complement
- 59
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Service
- as HMS Pandora30 June 1930 — 1 April 1942943 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Pandora
- Pennant / hull number
- N42
- Namesake
- Pandora
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow in Furness
- Ordered
- 7 February 1928
- Laid down
- 9 July 1928
- Launched
- 22 August 1929
- Commissioned
- 30 June 1930
- Fate
- Sunk by aircraft, 1 April 1942
By aircraft (1942) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,475 long tons (1,499 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,040 long tons (2,073 t)
- Length
- 79.25 m (260 ft)
- Beam
- 8.53 m (28 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h, 20.1 mph)
- Range
- 8,500 nmi (15,742 km)
- Complement
- 59
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Pandora was a Parthian-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number N42. She was named for Pandora. Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow in Furness laid her keel on 9 July 1928. She entered service on 30 June 1930, having been launched on 22 August 1929.
Four ships of the class were built. The class followed the Odin-class submarine and was succeeded by the Rainbow-class submarine.
The boat displaced 1,475 long tons surfaced and 2,040 long tons submerged. She measured 79.2 m (260 ft) long with a beam of 8.5 m (28 ft). Her designed speed was 17.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 59.
Her main battery was one 102 mm (4 in) guns.
She was in commission for 943 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 1 April 1942 by aircraft. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel-electric
- 2 Admiralty diesel engines, 4400 hp
- 2 Electric motors, 1530 hp
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 8 × 21 in torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern)
- 1 × 4 in deck gun
- 2 × machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Pandora (N42) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.