 HMS Varangian
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| Name | HMS Varangian |
| Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker |
| Laid down | 23 December 1941 |
| Launched | 4 April 1943 |
| Commissioned | 10 July 1943 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1 June 1949, Gateshead |
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| Length | 60 m (196 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 4.90 m (16 ft 1 in) |
| Draught | 4.62 m (15 ft 2 in) |
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| Complement | 33 |
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HMS Varangian was a British built U class submarine, a member of the third group of that class to be built. The submarine carried out patrols in the Norwegian Sea and was also used in a training role. She was broken up at Gateshead in 1949. Her ship's bell (inscribed "HMS Varangian 1943") is in the possession of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport, United Kingdom.
Citations
- "HMS Varangian". uboat.net. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- Royal Navy Submarine Museum list of artifacts Archived 8 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) . Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8. OCLC 53783010.
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