HMS Vigorous
Service
- as HMS Vigorous13 January 1944 — 23 December 1949598 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Vigorous
- Pennant / hull number
- P74
- Builder
- Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
- Laid down
- 14 December 1942
- Launched
- 15 October 1943
- Commissioned
- 13 January 1944
- Fate
- Scrapped at Stockton-on-Tees, 23 December 1949 (1949)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 545 long tons (554 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 740 long tons (752 t)
- Length
- 62.18 m (204 ft)
- Beam
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 11.3 knots (20.8 km/h, 12.9 mph)
- Complement
- 33
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Vigorous was a V-class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P74. Her keel was laid at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness on 14 December 1942. Launched on 15 October 1943, she entered service on 13 January 1944.
Her class ran to 30 ships. The class followed the Nelson-class battleship and was succeeded by the Lion-class battleship.
The boat displaced 545 long tons surfaced and 740 long tons submerged. She measured 62.2 m (204 ft) long with a beam of 4.9 m (16 ft). Her designed speed was 11.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 33.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 598 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 23 December 1949.
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 Paxman Ricardo diesel generators + electric motors
- 615 hp / 825 hp
- Armament
- 4 × bow internal 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 8-10 torpedoes
- 1 × 3 in deck gun
Sister ships
- French submarine Doris (P84)
- HMAS Vampire (D68)
- HMAS Vendetta (D69)
- HMCS Algonquin (R17)
- HMCS Sioux
- HMS Anson (79)
- HMS Centurion (1911)
- HMS Duke of York (17)
- HMS Grenville (R97)
- HMS Hardy (R08)
- HMS Howe (32)
- HMS King George V (41)
- HMS Prince of Wales (53)
- HMS Ulster (R83)
- HMS Upshot
- HMS Urania
- HMS Urchin (R99)
- HMS Valentine (R17)
- HMS Vanoc
- HMS Venus (R50)
- HMS Verulam (R28)
- HMS Vigilant (R93)
- HMS Vimy
- HMS Virago (R75)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Vigorous on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18761/large.jpg This photograph FL 4025 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons