HMS Astute (P447)
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The HMS Astute ( ship identification P447, later S45) a submarine was the Amphion class . It was built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness on 4 April 1944 laid Kiel , expired on January 30, 1945 from the stack and only after the end of World War II in Europe on 30 June 1945 in the service of the Royal Navy Submarine Service provided.
In 1953 she took part in the naval parade on the occasion of the coronation of Elizabeth II . On October 1, 1970, she was sold for scrapping in Dunston on Tyne.
construction
Like all Amphion- class submarines , the Astute had a displacement of 1,360 tons on the surface and 1,590 tons underwater. She had a total length of 89.46 m, a width of 6.81 m and a draft of 5.51 m. The submarine was powered by two Admiralty ML eight-cylinder diesel engines, each with an output of 2,150 PS (1,600 kW). It also contained four electric motors, each with an output of 625 hp (466 kW), that powered two shafts. It could bunker a maximum of 219 tons of diesel, but usually took between 159 and 165 tons.
The submarine had a maximum surface speed of 18.5 knots (34.3 km / h) and an underwater speed of 8 knots (15 km / h). Submerged, it could travel 90 nautical miles (170 km) at 3 knots (5.6 km / h) or 16 nautical miles (30 km) at 8 knots (15 km / h). 18 mi). When surfaced, it was able to cover 15,200 nautical miles (28,200 km) at 10 knots (19 km / h) or 10,500 nautical miles (19,400 km) at 11 knots (20 km / h). The Astute was ten torpedo tubes (21 inches, 53.3 cm), a 10.2-cm naval gun (QF, 4 inches, Mk XXIII), a 2.0-cm- automatic cannon from Oerlikon and a British Vickers machine gun ( .303 ) equipped. The torpedo tubes were attached to the bow and stern , and there were twenty torpedoes on board. The crew consisted of sixty-one men.
Mission history
The Astute arrived on April 11, 1950 in Halifax (Nova Scotia) and completed a six-week training course with the Royal Canadian Navy , which ended on July 1. She spent 21 months in Halifax from 1955 to 1956 as part of the Canadian submarine squadron and left Canada on December 10, 1956 for Great Britain.
In response to the Cuban Missile Crisis , the Astute and her sister ship Alderney , both part of the Sixth Submarine Squadron based in Halifax, were sent on patrol northeast of the Newfoundland Bank to investigate whether Soviet submarines should be sent across the Atlantic to Cuba and trigger an alarm if necessary.
literature
- Blackman, VB (1962). Jane's Fighting Ships 1962-63. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.
- Colledge, JJ; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8
- Hennessy, Peter; Jinks, James (2016). The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-241-95948-0
Footnotes
- ^ Souvenir Program, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, June 15, 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden
- ^ Paul Akermann (November 1, 2002). Encyclopedia of British Submarines 1901–1955. Periscope Publishing Ltd. P. 422. ISBN 978-1-904381-05-1 .
- ^ "Acheron class". World Naval Ships, Cranston Fine Arts
- ^ "Submarine Arrives". The Crowsnest. Vol. 2 no.7. King's Printer. May 1950. p. 4.
- ^ "Command News: HMS Ambrose". Navy News. February 1957. p. 9.
- ↑ Hennessy, Peter; Jinks, James (2016). The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945, Penguin, pp. 275-277 ISBN 978-0-241-95948-0