HMS Rover (N62)
- Displacement
- 1,763 long tons (1,791 t)
- Length
- 87.48 m (287 ft)
- Beam
- 9.14 m (30 ft)
- Speed
- 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h, 20.1 mph)
- Complement
- 53
- Main gun
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
Service
- as Rover29 January 1931 — 30 July 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Rover
- Pennant / hull number
- N62
- Builder
- Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness
- Ordered
- 28 February 1929
- Laid down
- 24 July 1929
- Launched
- 11 June 1930
- Commissioned
- 29 January 1931
- Fate
- Sold to be scrapped, 30 July 1946. Scrapped at Durban. (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,763 long tons (1,791 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,030 long tons (2,063 t)
- Length
- 87.48 m (287 ft)
- Beam
- 9.14 m (30 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Speed
- 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h, 20.1 mph)
- Complement
- 53
- Main gun
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Rover was a Rainbow-class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number N62. Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness laid her keel on 24 July 1929. Launched on 11 June 1930, she entered service on 29 January 1931.
Her class ran to four ships. The class followed the Parthian-class submarine and was succeeded by the S class.
The boat displaced 1,763 long tons surfaced and 2,030 long tons submerged. She measured 87.5 m (287 ft) long with a beam of 9.1 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 17.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 53.
Her main battery was one 119 mm (4.7 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 30 July 1946.
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, 4640 hp
- 2 × electric motors, 1635 hp
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 8 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) with 14 reloads
- 1 × 4.7 in QF Mark IX deck gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Rover (N62) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.