HMS Porpoise (S01)
HMS Porpoise (S01) | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Porpoise |
| Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Launched | 25 April 1956 |
| Commissioned | 17 April 1958 |
| Decommissioned | 1982 |
| Fate | Sunk as a target in 1985 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Porpoise class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 290 ft (88 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft 7 in (8.10 m) |
| Draught | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 9,000 nmi (17,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
| Complement | 71 |
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HMS Porpoise (S01) was a Porpoise-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 25 April 1956, commissioned on 17 April 1958, and was decommissioned in 1982. Finally, she was sunk as a target in 1985 in torpedo trials, for which purpose she was painted bright red.
She had been used as a training target while still serving with the Navy; in 1979 her casing, ballast tanks and vents were reinforced so that unarmed torpedoes could be fired at her without the risk of sinking.