Royal Navy — Submarine class
Parthian-class submarine
Parthian class
The class in numbers
- 6 Completed
- 5 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- In commission
- 1929–1946
- Preceded by
- Odin-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- Rainbow-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, surfaced
- 1,760 long tons (1,788 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,040 long tons (2,073 t)
- Length
- 88.09 m (289 ft)
- Speed
- 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h, 20.1 mph)
- Complement
- 53
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) with 14 reloads
- 1 × QF 4 in Mk XII deck gun
- After 1942 :
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
- Equipped to lay mines through torpedo tubes
Roster
Holding 4 of the 6 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 Pandora (N42) | N42 | 1930 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMS Parthian (N75) | N75 | 1931 | Sunk 1943 |
| HMS Perseus (N36) | N36 | 1930 | Sunk 1941 |
| HMS Phoenix (N96) | N96 | 1931 | Sunk 1940 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Parthian-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.