CHURCHILL HMS (S 46)
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:48 pm
Built as a nuclear powered submarine under yard No 1076 by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow for the Royal Navy.
21 October 1965 ordered.
30 June 1967 laid down.
20 December 1968 launched under the name HMS CHURCHILL (S 46), named after Winston Churchill, she was one of the Churchill class, two sisters the CONQUERER (S 48) and COURAGEOUS (50).
Displacement 4.200 tons surfaced, 4.900 tons submerged, dim. 86.90 x 10.10 x 8.20m. (draught).
Powered by one Rolls-Royce pressurised water-cooler reactor, powering two English Electric steam turbines, total 15.000 shp., one shaft, speed 20 knots surfaced, 28 knots submerged.
Also one Paxman diesel is fitted.
Armament 6 – 533mm torpedo tubes in the bow. Carried 26 torpedoes usually MK 8. torpedoes or 64 MK 5 (ground) or MK 6 (moored) mines.
Later modernized to MK 24 Tigerfish wire-guided dual role torpedoes, and 6 UGM-84B sub-Harpoon anti-ship missiles or Stonefish and Sea Urchin ground mines.
Crew 103.
15 July 1970 commissioned.
1975 Was she refitted and refuelled at Chatham Dockyard at Chatham.
She returned to service end October 1975.
She also tested the Sub-Harpoon for the Royal Navy.
28 February 1991 decommissioned and laid up at Rosyth.
2007 Still at Rosyth, laid up.
Zambia 2001 2000K sg?, scott?
Source: Many web-sites. The Encyclopaedia of Warships.