HMS Narwhal (S03)

HMS Narwhal (S03)
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Narwhal
Builder:	Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Launched:	25 October 1957
Fate:	Sunk as a target on 3 August 1985
General characteristics
Class and type:	Porpoise class submarine
Displacement:	2,080 tons surfaced 2,450 tons submerged
Length:	290 ft (88 m)
Beam:	26 ft 7 in (8.10 m)
Draught:	18 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion:	2 × Admiralty Standard range diesel generators, 1,650 hp (1.230 MW) 2 × English Electric main motors, 12,000 hp (8.95 MW) 2 shafts
Speed:	12 kn (22 km/h) surfaced 17 kn (31 km/h)submerged
Range:	9,000 nmi (17,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h)
Complement:	71
Armament:	8 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes, 6 bow, 2 stern 30 × Mk8 or Mk23 torpedoes, later the Mark 24 Tigerfish

HMS Narwhal (S03) was a Porpoise class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 25 October 1957.

Narwhal ran aground at the entrance to Campbeltown Loch, Scotland, on 4 April 1960.^[1] She was refloated the next day.^[2]

In 1970 she was present at Portsmouth Navy Days.^[3]

She was scuttled as a target on 3 August 1985 and lies in the English Channel.^[4]

Commanding officers

From	To	Captain
1964	1966	Lieutenant-Commander R A Anderson RN
1970	1970	Lieutenant-Commander O M Windle RN

References

1. "Submarine Goes Aground" The Times (London). Tuesday, 5 April 1960. (54738), col D, p. 12.
2. "Grounded Submarine Towed Off" The Times (London). Wednesday, 6 April 1960. (54739), col C, p. 6.
3. Programme, Navy Days Portsmouth, 29th-31st August 1970, p25.
4. url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?77651

Publications

• 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. OCLC 67375475.

External links

• Narwhal film from 1960