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HMS Narwhal (S03)

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Name
  
HMS Narwhal

Launched
  
25 October 1957

Builder
  
Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness

Fate
  
Sunk as a target on 3 August 1985

Class and type
  
Porpoise class submarine

Displacement
  
2,080 tons surfaced 2,450 tons submerged

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. She was refloated the next day.

In 1970 she was present at Portsmouth Navy Days.

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

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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