HMS Aurochs (P426)
HMS Aurochs | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Aurochs |
| Namesake | Aurochs |
| Ordered | Very late in World War II |
| Builder | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down | 21 June 1944 |
| Launched | 28 July 1945 |
| Commissioned | 7 February 1947 |
| Decommissioned | 1966 |
| Identification | Pennant number P246 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap on 7 February 1967. Scrapped at Troon, Scotland in February 1967. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Amphion-class submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 293 ft 6 in (89.46 m) |
| Beam | 22 ft 4 in (6.81 m) |
| Draught | 18 ft 1 in (5.51 m) |
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| Test depth | 350 ft (110 m) |
| Complement | 60 |
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HMS Aurochs (P426/S26), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 28 July 1945. Her namesake was the aurochs (Bos primigenius), an extinct Eurasian wild ox ancestral to domestic cattle and often portrayed in cave art and heraldry.