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HMS Cachalot (S06)

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Cost
  
£2,340,000

Commissioned
  
1 September 1959

Beam
  
26.5 ft (8.1 m)

Launched
  
11 December 1957

Draft
  
5.5 m

Laid down
  
1 August 1955

Fate
  
Broken up

Construction started
  
1 August 1955

Length
  
88 m

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Displacement
  
2,080 tons surfaced 2,450 tons submerged

Builder
  
Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

HMS Cachalot (S06) was a Porpoise-class submarine. Her keel was laid down on 1 August 1955 by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock. She was launched on 11 December 1957, and commissioned on 1 September 1959.

Cachalot attended the 1977 Silver Jubilee Fleet Review off Spithead when she was part of the Submarine Flotilla.

She was sold on 12 November 1979 for breaking up at Blyth.

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. 

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    HMS Cachalot (S06) Wikipedia
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