Royal Navy — Submarine class
Rainbow-class submarine
Rainbow class
The class in numbers
- 6 Planned
- 4 Completed
- 2 Cancelled
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- In commission
- 1930–1946
- Preceded by
- Parthian-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- S class
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,763 long tons (1,791 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,030 long tons (2,063 t)
- Length
- 87.48 m (287 ft)
- Speed
- 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h, 20.1 mph)
- Complement
- 53
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) with 14 reloads
- 1 × QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mark IX deck gun
- After 1942 :
- 2 × 20 mm cannon
- Equipped to lay mines through torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Rainbow (N16) | N16 | 1932 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Regent (N41) | N41 | 1930 | Sunk 1943 |
| HMS Regulus (N88) | N88 | 1930 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Rover (N62) | N62 | 1931 | Scrapped 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Rainbow-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.