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 surfaced2,450 tons submerged |
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.
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