Royal Navy — Submarine
HMS P556
Service
- as HMS P5565 June 1942 — 24 January 19471,185 days of the war
HMS P556
Particulars
- Name
- HMS P556
- Builder
- Bethlehem Steel
- Laid down
- 17 April 1919
- Launched
- 9 November 1922
- Decommissioned
- 24 January 1947
- Fate
- Scrapped 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 640 long tons (650 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 935 long tons (950 t)
- Length
- 61.57 m (202 ft)
- Beam
- 7.32 m (24 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Speed
- 13.8 knots (25.5 km/h, 15.8 mph)
- Complement
- 36
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS P556 was a submarine in service with the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem Steel on 17 April 1919. She was launched on 9 November 1922.
The boat displaced 640 long tons surfaced and 935 long tons submerged. She measured 61.6 m (202 ft) long with a beam of 7.3 m (24 ft). Her designed speed was 13.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 36.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,185 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 24 January 1947.
She was broken up for scrap in 1947.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) forward torpedo tubes, 12 torpedoes
- 1 × 3 in gun
- 1 × .303-calibre machine gun
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS P556 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: John Alfred Hampton — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//30/media-30282/large.jpg This photograph A 19471 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons