French submarine Curie (P67)

British U-class submarine Particulars

Name: Curie
Pennant / hull number: P67
Builder: Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down: 29 April 1942
Launched: 23 January 1943
Commissioned: 2 May 1943
Fate: Scrapped, May 1949 at Milford Haven (1949)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 540 long tons (549 t)
Displacement, submerged: 740 long tons (752 t)
Length: 59.74 m (196 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: 37
Main gun: 76 mm (3 in)

Curie was a British U-class submarine. She carried the pennant number P67. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness laid her keel on 29 April 1942. She entered service on 2 May 1943, having been launched on 23 January 1943.

She was one of 53 ships of her class.

The boat displaced 540 long tons surfaced and 740 long tons submerged. She measured 59.7 m (196 ft) long with a beam of 4.9 m (16 ft). Her designed speed was 11.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 37.

Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns.

She was broken up for scrap in May 1949.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 shaft diesel-electric
2 Paxman-Ricardo diesel generators + electric motors
615 / 825 hp
Armament: 4 bow internal, 2 bow external 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes: 8 - 10 torpedoes
1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun
3 × AA machine guns

Sister ships

28 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from French submarine Curie (P67) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
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