HMS Andrew (P423)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | Very late in World War II |
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 13 August 1945 |
| Launched: | 6 April 1946 |
| Commissioned: | 16 March 1948 |
| Fate: | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 5 May 1977. Scrapped at Plymouth later in 1977. |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,360/1,590 tons (surface/submerged) |
| Length: | 293 ft 6 in (89.5 m) |
| Beam: | 22 ft 4 in (6.8 m) |
| Draught: | 18 ft 1 in (5.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 2,150 hp Admiralty ML 8-cylinder diesel engine, 2 × 625 hp electric motors for submergence driving two shafts |
| Speed: | 18.5/8 knots (surface/submerged) |
| Range: | 10,500 nautical miles (19,400 km) at 11 knots (20 km/h) surfaced 16 nautical miles (30 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h) or 90 nautical miles (170 km) at 3 knots (6 km/h) submerged |
| Test depth: | 350 ft (110 m) |
| Complement: | 5 officers 55 enlisted |
| Armament: | 6 × 21" (2 external)bow torpedo tube, 4 × 21" (2 external) stern torpedo tube, containing a total of 20 torpedoes Mines: 26 1 × 4" main deck gun, 3 × 0.303 machine gun, 1 × 20 mm AA Oerlikon 20 mm gun |
HMS Andrew (P423), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched on 6 April 1946.
HMS Andrew made several claims to submarine history:
- she was the oldest submarine of the Amphion class in service
- she was the last UK submarine to carry a deck gun
- she was the last submarine designed during the Second World War remaining in service
- she was the first submarine to cross the Atlantic submerged using the "snort", in June 1953. The 2,500-nautical-mile (4,600 km), 15 day trip from Bermuda to England set a new world record for continuous underwater operation.
- she starred in a film - see below!
[edit] Film career
HMS Andrew was used in the 1959 film On the Beach, playing the part of the fictional USS Sawfish. The U.S. Navy did not cooperate in the production of the film, so Andrew was used to represent the nuclear-powered submarine.
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