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HMS Walrus (S08)

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Name
  
HMS Walrus

Commissioned
  
10 February 1961

Construction started
  
12 February 1958

Draft
  
5.5 m

Laid down
  
12 February 1958

Length
  
88 m

Launched
  
22 September 1959

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Fate
  
Sold in 1987Broken up in 1991

Class and type
  
Porpoise class submarine

Displacement
  
2,080 tons surfaced2,450 tons submerged

Builder
  
Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

HMS Walrus (S08) was the last of the Porpoise class submarines of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 22 September 1959, and commissioned on 10 February 1961.

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Royal Navy Service

On one occasion during exercises with HMS Ark Royal (R09) an error resulted in a practice torpedo becoming embedded in the submarine's casing.

Following an 18-month refit at Devonport Dockyard she commissioned for the third time on 3 December 1969. In 1970 she was present at Portsmouth Navy Days Walrus also attended the 1977 Silver Jubilee Fleet Review off Spithead when she was part of the Submarine Flotilla.

She was sold in 1987 to the Seaforth Group to be refitted for resale to Egypt, but was broken up at Grimsby in 1991.

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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