HMS Poseidon
HMS Poseidon | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Poseidon |
| Builder | Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down | 5 September 1928 |
| Launched | 22 August 1929 |
| Commissioned | 5 May 1930 |
| Fate | Sunk on 9 June 1931 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Parthian-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 260 ft (79 m) |
| Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 8,500 nmi (15,700 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Complement | 59 |
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HMS Poseidon (P99) was a Parthian-class submarine designed and built by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in Barrow-in-Furness, England for the Royal Navy, launched on 22 August 1929. She spent most of her short career assigned to the Yellow Sea region, based at the Royal Navy's Weihai naval base in mainland China. In 1931, the submarine sank after a collision with the steamship Yuta north of Weihai. The submarine was later secretly salvaged by the Chinese in 1972.