"V" class Coastal Submarines
 
Individual Specifications
Name Pennant Builder Completed Fate
Venturer P68 Vickers 19/8/43 To Norway 1946 as Utstein
Viking P69 Vickers 30/8/43 To Norway 1946 as Utvaer
Veldt P71 Vickers 1/11/43 To Greece 1943 as Pipinos. Returned 1957 & scrapped
Vampire P72 Vickers 13/11/43 Scrapped 1950
Vox P73 Vickers 30/12/43 Scrapped 1946
Vigorous P74 Vickers 13/1/44 Scrapped 1949
Virtue P75 Vickers 29/2/44 Scrapped 1946
Visigoth P76 Vickers 9/3/44 Scrapped 1950
Vivid P77 Vickers 19/1/44 Scrapped 1950
Voracious P78 Vickers 13/4/44 Scrapped 1946
Vulpine P79 Vickers 2/6/44 To Denmark 1947 as U.2, then 1947, Storen. Returned 1958 & scrapped
Varne P81 Vickers 30/7/44 Scrapped 1958
Upshot P82 Vickers 15/5/44 Scrapped 1948
Urtica P83 Vickers 20/6/44 Scrapped 1950
Vineyard P84 Vickers 1/8/44 To France 1944 as Doris. Returned 1947 & scrapped 1950
Variance P85 Vickers 24/8/44 To Norway 1944 as Utsira
Vengeful P86 Vickers 16/10/44 To Greece 1945 as Delfin. Returned 1957 & scrapped
Vortex P87 Vickers 1/12/44 To France 1944 as Morse. Returned 1947 & to Denmark as U.3 then Saelen.
Returned 1957 & scrapped.
Virulent P95 Vickers 1/10/44 To Greece 1946 as Ardonaftis. Returned 1958 & scrapped
Volatile P96 Vickers 4/11/44 To Greece 1946 as Triana. Returned 1958 & scrapped
Vagabond P18 Vickers 27/2/45 Scrapped 1949
Votary P29 Vickers 13/12/44 To Norway 1946 as Uthuag
         
1:600 "V" class submarine. The long, raked addition to the bows is
apparent here. © Andrew Arthur

This class was an improved "U" class, which was welded instead of rivited, and so could dive 100 feet deeper to 300 feet. A finer, more streamlined casing was adopted, and the stem was much more raked, for a slightly greater length.
20 of a planned 42 were cancelled at the war's end.

Dimensions
Empty Displacement 545 tons Length 204.5'
Surfaced Displacement 604 tons Beam 16'
Submerged Displacement 740 tons Draft 12.75~14.75'
       
       
Performance & Propulsion
Range 4700 nm @ 10 kts = 45 days
Dive 300'
Speed 12.75 kts ( 9 kts submerged )
Machinery 2 x 8cyl. Davy-Paxman diesels @ 800 bhp,
2 x Electric generators @ 600 kW
2 x GEC electric motors @ 760 shp
   
   
Armament & Complement
Complement 7 officers & 30 ratings
Armament
  • Torpedo
    • 4 x 21" bow tubes
    • 8 x 21" torpedoes
  • Gun
    • 1 x 1 x 3" AA
    • 1 x 2 x, 1 x 1 x 0.303" MG AA
 
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