HMS Achates (P433)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Achates (P433)
Laid down:	8 March 1944
Launched:	20 September 1945
Fate:	Expended as a target
General characteristics if completed
Class and type:	Amphion-class submarine
Displacement:	1,360/1,590 tons (surface/submerged)
Length:	293 ft 6 in (89.46 m)
Beam:	22 ft 4 in (6.81 m)
Draught:	18 ft 1 in (5.51 m)
Propulsion:	2 × 2,150 hp (1,600 kW) Admiralty ML 8-cylinder diesel engine, 2 × 625 hp (466 kW) electric motors for submergence driving two shafts
Speed:	18.5 kn (34.3 km/h) surface, 8 kn (15 km/h) submerged; 10,500 nmi (19,400 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h) surfaced; 16 nmi (30 km) at 8 kn (15 km/h) or 90 nmi (170 km) at 3 kn (5.6 km/h) submerged;
Test depth:	350 ft (110 m)
Complement:	5 officers 55 enlisted
Armament:	6 × 21 inch (533 mm) (2 external) bow torpedo tubes, 4 × 21 in (2 external) stern torpedo tubes, containing a total of 20 torpedoes; Mines: 26; 1 × 4 in (102 mm) main deck gun, 3 × 0.303 machine gun, 1 × 20 mm AA Oerlikon 20 mm gun;

HMS Achates was a planned Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, launched in 1945 but not completed and expended as a target off Gibraltar in June 1950.[1]

References

Colledge & Warlow 2006, p. 20.

Bibliography

Colledge, J. J.; 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.

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[FOOTNOTEColledgeWarlow200620-1] Colledge & Warlow 2006, p. 20.