HMS Perseus (N36)
- Displacement
- 1,475 long tons (1,499 t)
- Length
- 79.25 m (260 ft)
- Beam
- 8.53 m (28 ft)
- Speed
- 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h, 20.1 mph)
- Complement
- 59
Service
- as HMS Perseus15 April 1930 — 6 December 1941827 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Perseus
- Pennant / hull number
- N36
- Namesake
- Perseus
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow in Furness
- Laid down
- 2 July 1928
- Launched
- 22 May 1929
- Commissioned
- 15 April 1930
- Fate
- Sunk by mine 6 December 1941
By mine (1941) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,475 long tons (1,499 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,040 long tons (2,073 t)
- Length
- 79.25 m (260 ft)
- Beam
- 8.53 m (28 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h, 20.1 mph)
- Range
- 8,500 nmi (15,742 km)
- Complement
- 59
HMS Perseus was a Parthian-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number N36. The ship was named after Perseus. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow in Furness on 2 July 1928. She entered service on 15 April 1930, having been launched on 22 May 1929.
She was one of four ships of her class. The class followed the Odin-class submarine and was succeeded by the Rainbow-class submarine.
The boat displaced 1,475 long tons surfaced and 2,040 long tons submerged. She measured 79.2 m (260 ft) long with a beam of 8.5 m (28 ft). Her designed speed was 17.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 59.
She was in commission for 827 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 6 December 1941 by mine, at 37°54′N 20°54′E. 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
- Diesel-electric
- 2 Admiralty diesel engines, 4400 hp
- 2 Electric motors, 1530 hp
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern)
- 1 × 4.724 inL40 mark X deck gun in a 50 degree CPXV mounting
- 2 × machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Perseus (N36) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.