HMS Varangian

British U-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Varangian10 July 1943 — 1 June 1949785 days of the war

British U-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Varangian
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker
Laid down: 23 December 1941
Launched: 4 April 1943
Commissioned: 10 July 1943
Fate: Scrapped, 1 June 1949, Gateshead (1949)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 540 long tons (549 t)
Displacement, submerged: 740 long tons (752 t)
Length: 60 m (196.9 ft)
Beam: 4.9 m (16.1 ft)
Draught: 4.62 m (15.2 ft)
Speed: 11.3 knots (20.8 km/h, 12.9 mph)
Complement: 33
Main gun: 76 mm (3 in)

HMS Varangian was a British U-class submarine in service with the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker on 23 December 1941. Launched on 4 April 1943, she entered service on 10 July 1943.

She was one of 53 ships of her class.

The boat displaced 540 long tons surfaced and 740 long tons submerged. She measured 60 m (197 ft) long with a beam of 4.9 m (16 ft). Her designed speed was 11.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 33.

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

She was in commission for 785 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap on 1 June 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 gun
3 × AA machine guns

Sister ships

28 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Varangian on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 5612 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons