Royal Navy — Submarine class
Soviet M-class submarine
The class in numbers
- 141 Planned
- 141 Completed
- 33 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- In commission
- 1933
- Preceded by
- None
- Succeeded by
- Quebec-class submarine
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, submerged
- 158 long tons (161 t)
- Length
- 37.5 m (123 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Complement
- 16
- Main gun
- 45 mm (1.8 in)
- Armament
- VI to XII: 2 × 533 mm bow torpedo tubes
- XV: 4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (2 bow, 2 stern)
- All series: 1 × 45 mm semi-automatic gun
Roster
Holding 7 of the 141 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Mahratta | 1943 | Sunk 1944 | |
| HMS Marne (G35) | G35 | 1941 | 1970 |
| HMS Matchless (G52) | G52 | 1942 | Scrapped |
| HMS Meteor (G73) | G73 | 1941 | 1979 |
| HMS Milne (G14) | G14 | 1942 | 1970 |
| HMS Musketeer (G86) | G86 | 1941 | Scrapped 1955 |
| ORP Orkan (G90) | G90 | 1942 | Sunk 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Soviet M-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.