Name HMS Aeneas (P427) Laid down 10 October 1944 Fate Scrapped, 1974 Launched 25 October 1945 | Namesake Aeneas Commissioned 31 July 1946 Construction started 10 October 1944 Builder Cammell Laird | |
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Class and type Amphion-class submarine | ||
HMS Aeneas (P427), named after the hero Aeneas from Greek mythology, was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Cammell Laird and launched 9 October 1945.
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Service History
Aeneas took part in the Coronation Review of the Fleet to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
Aeneas played the part of the M1 submarine in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice.
In 1972 Aeneas was hired by Vickers for use in what proved to be successful trials of the Submarine-Launched Airflight Missile (SLAM) system, an anti aircraft system using a cluster of four Shorts Blowpipe missiles on an extendable mast, allowing attacks against low flying aircraft while the submarine was at periscope depth.
Aeneas was broken up in 1974.
On 26 September 2012 DNCS at the company's Le Mourillon plant announced plans to design and build a submarine canister-based air defence weapon based on MBDA's Mistral. The concept is based on the British SLAM, Submarine Launched Airflight Missile which was based on the Blowpipe developed by Vickers in the 1970s, not to be confused with the American SLAM Stand off Land Attack Missile, and used on HMS Aeneas.