HMS Pandora (N42)
HMS Pandora | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Pandora |
| Namesake | Pandora |
| Ordered | 7 February 1928 |
| Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow in Furness |
| Laid down | 9 July 1928 |
| Launched | 22 August 1929 |
| Commissioned | 30 June 1930 |
| Identification | Pennant number: N42 |
| Fate | Sunk by aircraft, 1 April 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Parthian-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 260 ft (79 m) |
| Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 8,500 nmi (15,700 km; 9,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 59 |
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HMS Pandora was a British Parthian-class submarine commissioned in 1930 and lost in 1942 during the Second World War. This class was the first to be fitted with Mark VIII torpedoes. On 4 July 1940 she torpedoed and sank the French aviso Rigault de Genouilly off the Algerian coast. In an extension of the Lend-Lease program, Pandora, along with three other British and French submarines, was overhauled at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the United States. She was sunk on 1 April 1942 by Junkers Ju 87 aircraft from Sturzkampfgeschwader 3 at the Valletta dockyard, Malta.