Parthian-class submarine explained

The Parthian-class submarine or P class was a class of six submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. They were designed as long-range patrol submarines for the Far East. These boats were almost identical to the, the only difference being a different bow shape.

Boats

Construction data

Name	Builder	Launched	Fate
	Vickers, Barrow	22 August 1929	Sunk by Italian aircraft in harbour at Valletta, Malta, 1 April 1942; Raised but not repaired, September 1943; Hulk scrapped, 1955
	Chatham Dockyard	22 June 1929	Lost in the Adriatic, presumed mined, 6 August11 August 1943
	Vickers, Barrow	22 May 1929	Mined in the Ionian Sea between the islands of Kefallonia and Zakynthos off the west coast of Greece, 6 December 1941
	Cammell Laird	3 October 1929	Presumed sunk in depth charge attack by the Italian torpedo boat Albatros off the coast of Sicily, 16 July 1940
	Vickers, Barrow	21 June 1929	Sank in accidental collision with a merchant steamer, 9 June 1931; Wreck alleged to have been salvaged by China during 1970s^[1]
	Vickers, Barrow	23 July 1929	Scrapped at Troon, March 1946

Bibliography

• Book: Akermann, Paul. Encyclopaedia of British Submarines 1901–1955. reprint of the 1989. 2002. Periscope Publishing. Penzance, Cornwall. 1-904381-05-7.
• Book: Bagnasco, Erminio . Submarines of World War Two . 1977 . Naval Institute Press . Annapolis, Maryland . 0-87021-962-6.
• Caruana. Joseph. 2012 . Emergency Victualling of Malta During WWII. Warship International. LXIX . 4 . 357–364 . 0043-0374.
  • Book: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Chesneau. Roger. Conway Maritime Press. Greenwich, UK. 1980. 0-85177-146-7.
• Book: McCartney, Innes. Oxford, UK. British Submarines 1939–1945. New Vanguard. 129. 2006. Osprey. 1-84603-007-2.

External links

• Web site: Parthian class submarine . Battleships-cruisers.co.uk . 2006-12-02 .
• Web site: Parthian class . rnsubs.co.uk. 27 September 2022.
• Web site: HMS Pandora . Uboat.net . 27 September 2022 .

Notes and References

1. News: Ryall . Julian . 12 June 2009 . Weihai . China accused of secretly salvaging sunken British submarine containing 18 lost sailors . London . . 15 September 2021.