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Voracious 1944

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Vampire	P72, 1948- S...		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	11.1942	20.7.1943	11/1943	BU 3.1950
Veldt	P71, 1957- S...		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	11.1942	19.7.1943	11.1943 // ---	to Greece at completion 11.1943 - 12.1957 (Πιπίνος [Pipinos]), BU 2.1958
Venturer	P68		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	8.1942	4.5.1943	8/1943	to Norway 1.1946 (Utstein)
Vigorous	P74, 1948- S...		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	12.1942	15.10.1943	1/1944	BU 12.1949
Viking	P69		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	9.1942	5.5.1943	8/1943	to Norway 1.1946 (Utvær)
Virtue	P75		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	2.1943	29.11.1943	2/1944	BU 5.1946
Visigoth	P76, 1948- S...		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	2.1943	30.11.1943	3/1944	BU 4.1950
Vox	P73		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	12.1942	28.9.1943	12/1943	BU 5.1946
Ulex	P93		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	1943	---	---	cancelled
Unbridled	P11		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	1943	---	---	cancelled
Upas	P92		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	1943	---	---	cancelled
Upshot	P82, 1948- S...		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	5.1943	24.2.1944	5/1944	BU 11.1949
Upward	P16		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	1943	---	---	cancelled
Urtica	P83, 1948- S...		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	4.1943	23.3.1944	6/1944	BU 3.1950
Utopia	P94		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	1943	---	---	cancelled
Vagabond	P18, 1948- S...		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	4.1943	19.9.1944	2.1945	BU 1.1950
Vantage			Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	1943	---	---	cancelled
Variance	P85		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	5.1943	22.5.1944	8.1944 // ---	to Norway at completion 8.1944 (Utsira)
Varne	P81, 1948- S...		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	11.1942	24.2.1944	7/1944	BU 9.1958
Vehement	P25		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	1943	---	---	cancelled
Vengeful	P86, 1957- S...		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	1943	20.7.1944	10/1944	to Greece 4.1945 - 12.1957 (Δελφίν [Delfin]), BU 3.1958
Venom	P27		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	1943	---	---	cancelled
Verve	P28		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	1943	---	---	cancelled
Veto	P88		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	1943	---	---	cancelled
Vineyard	P84, 1948- S...		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	1943	8.5.1944	8.1944 // ---	to France at completion 8.1944 - 9.1946 (Doris), BU 6.1950
Virile	P89		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	1943	---	---	cancelled
Virulent	P95, 1958- S...		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	3.1943	23.5.1944	10/1944	to Greece 5.1946 - 5.1958 (Αργοναύτες [Argonautis]), BU 4.1961
Visitant	P91		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	1943	---	---	cancelled
Vivid	P77, 1948- S...		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	10.1942	15.9.1943	1/1944	BU 10.1950
Volatile	P96		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	3.1943	20.6.1944	11/1944	to Greece 5.1946 - 10.1958 (τρίαινα [Triaina]), BU 12.1958
Voracious	P78		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	10.1942	11.11.1943	4.1944	BU 5.1946
Vortex	P87		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	1943	19.8.1944	11.1944 // ---	to France at completion 11.1944 - 9.1946 (Morse), to Denmark 2.1947 - 1.1958 (Sælen), BU 8.1958
Votary	P29		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	4.1943	21.8.1944	12/1944	to Norway 7.1946 (Uthaug)
Vulpine	P79		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	11.1942	28.12.1943	6/1944	to Denmark 9.1947 - 1.1959 (Støren), BU 4.1959
8 unnamed units			Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	1943	---	---	cancelled

Technical data

Max speed, kts, kn	11.25 / 10
Displacement standard, t	545
Displacement normal, t	658 - 662 / 740
Length, m	62.3
Breadth, m	4.90
Draught, m	4.65
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Paxman diesel-generators / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	615 / 825
Fuel, t	diesel oil 55
Endurance, nm(kts)	4700(10) / 30(9)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk II, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 4 - 533 TT (bow, 8 torpedoes or 6 М2 mines)
Electronic equipment	completed 1943 - 1944: type 291W radar, type 129, type 138 sonars completed 1944 - 1945: type 267QW radar, type 129, type 138 sonars
Complement	33
Diving depth operational, m	90

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Project history

The further development of "U" class. Bulkheads were welded, thickness of plating of riveted pressure hull was increased, at the expense of what the operational diving depth was increased to 90m. Fuel stowage was increased: part of ballast tanks were used for fuel oil. Boats were built under 1941 and 1942 Programmes. Order for building of 12 more submarines of the same class was cancelled.

Modernizations

1/1946: 1 x 1 - 76/45 CP Mk V, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk IIA S/M, 4 - 533 TT, type 291W or type 267QW radar, type 129, type 138 sonars

Naval service

No significant events.