HMS Spearhead (P263)
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 HMS Spearhead |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | S class submarine |
| Name: | HMS Spearhead |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead |
| Laid down: | 18 August 1943 |
| Launched: | October 2, 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 21 December 1944 |
| Renamed: | to Portuguese Navy as Neptuno |
| Fate: | sold 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 814-872 tons surfaced 990 tons submerged |
| Length: | 217 ft (66 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft 6 in (7.2 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Speed: | 14.75 knots surfaced 8 knots submerged |
| Complement: | 48 officers and men |
| Armament: | 6 x forward 21-inch torpedo tubes, one aft 13 torpedoes one three-inch gun (four-inch on later boats) one 20 mm cannon three .303-calibre machine gun |
HMS Spearhead was an S class submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Cammell Laird and launched on July 6, 1944. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Spearhead.[1]
Spearhead survived the Second World War and was sold to the Portuguese in August 1948 and renamed Neptuno.
[edit] References
- ^ HMS Spearhead, Uboat.net
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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