HMS Auriga (P419)
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The HMS Auriga ( ship identification P419, later S69) was a submarine of the Royal Navy , which for Amphion class belonged, also known as A-class or as Acheron is called class. The Amphion- class submarines were designed for use in the Far East , where the size of the Pacific Ocean made long range, high surface speed and relative comfort for the crew important features to allow for much larger patrol areas and longer periods at sea, when the British submarines stationed in the Atlantic or the Mediterranean needed it.
It was on June 7, 1944 in the yard of Vickers -Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness , the only submarine shipyard Britain, to put Kiel , expired on March 29, 1945 from the stack and was completed on 12 January 1946 . As with all Amphion- class boats , their name begins with the letter A, the Latin word auriga means charioteer .
construction
Like all Amphion- class submarines , the Auriga 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). 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 Auriga 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 men.
Mission history
In 1953, the Auriga took part in the naval parade to celebrate the coronation of Elizabeth II .
In October 1959 she was transferred to the 6th Submarine Division in Halifax , Nova Scotia . There she took part in a combined naval exercise with the United States Navy in March 1961 . After eighteen months of service, the Auriga left Canada on April 25, 1961 for Great Britain.
On November 14, 1974, the Auriga was sold for scrapping and scrapped in Newport from February 1975 .
literature
- 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
Footnotes
- ^ 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
- ^ Souvenir Program, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, June 15, 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden.
- ^ "A / S Exercise Off Nova Scotia". The Crowsnest. Vol. 13 no.6. Queen's Printer. April 1961. p. 2
- ^ "Auriga Returns to United Kingdom". The Crowsnest. Vol. 13 no.7. Queen's Printer. May 1961. p. 3.