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Name: ADMIRABLE, ADVERSARY, ASPERITY, AUSTERE, AWAKE & AZTEC
Type: Submarine
Keel: n/a
Launched: n/a
Completed: n/a
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd
Yard: High Walker
Yard Number: 76, 81, 77, 78, 79 & 80 respectively
Dimensions: 1385disp surf, 1620disp subm, 280.5 x 22.3 x 16.8(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Oil engines, 430hp; 2 x electric motors, 1250hp
Engines by:
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 18.0knots surf, 8.0knots subm
Construction: Steel
Armament: 1 x 4ins QF, 1 x 20mm guns, 6 x 21.0ins fwd, 4 x 21.0ins aft torpedoes
History:
British Royal Navy
Cancelled
Comments: Member of the A or Amphion Class of submarines
1945: All were cancelled, none had been laid down.
ADMIRABLE, ordered 30/07/1943, was to be allocated pennant P434
ADVERSARY, ordered 20/11/1943, was to be allocated pennant P457
ASPERITY, ordered 30/07/1943, was to be allocated pennant P444
AUSTERE, ordered 30/07/1943, was to be allocated pennant P445
AWAKE, ordered 30/07/1943, was to be allocated pennant P459
AZTEC, ordered 30/07/1943, was to be allocated pennant P455