Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Submarine 1941

HMS P36 (1941)

British U-class submarine

Displacement
540 long tons (549 t)
Length
59.74 m (196 ft)
Beam
4.88 m (16 ft)
Speed
11.3 knots (20.8 km/h, 12.9 mph)
Complement
27
Main gun
76 mm (3 in)

Service

  1. Royal Navy as P3624 September 1941 — 1 April 1942189 days of the war
British U-class submarine Particulars
Name
HMS P36
Pennant / hull number
1941
Builder
Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down
26 July 1940
Launched
28 April 1941
Commissioned
24 September 1941
Fate
Sunk 1 April 1942 (1942)
Status
Wreck

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
27
Main gun
76 mm (3 in)

HMS P36 was a British U-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 1941. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness laid her keel on 26 July 1940. Launched on 28 April 1941, she entered service on 24 September 1941.

Her class ran to 53 ships.

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 27.

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

She was in commission for 189 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 1 April 1942. The wreck survives.

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 / 825 hp
Armament
  • 4 bow internal, 2 bow external 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes: 8 – 10 torpedoes
  • 1 × 3 in gun
  • 3 × AA machine guns

Sister ships

28 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS P36 (1941) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.