HMS Proteus (N29)

Sister ship HMS Phoenix
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Proteus
Ordered:	7 February 1928
Builder:	Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down:	18 July 1928
Launched:	23 August 1929
Completed:	22 August 1929
Commissioned:	5 May 1930
Decommissioned:	30 June 1944
Fate:	Scrapped at Troon, Feb-Mar 1946
Notes:	Used for patrol mainly within the Mediterranean Sea.
General characteristics
Class and type:	Parthian-class submarine
Displacement:	1,788 long tons (1,817 t) surfaced 2,040 long tons (2,070 t) submerged
Length:	289 ft (88 m)
Beam:	30 ft (9.1 m)
Draught:	15 ft 11 in (4.85 m)
Propulsion:	Diesel-electric 2 Admiralty diesel engines, 4,400 hp (3,300 kW) 2 Electric motors, 1,530 hp (1,140 kW) 2 shafts
Speed:	17.5 knots (20.1 mph; 32.4 km/h) surfaced 9 kn (10 mph; 17 km/h) submerged
Range:	8,500 nmi (15,700 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Complement:	53
Armament:	8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) 1 × 4 in (102 mm) deck gun 2 × machine guns
Notes:	Pennant number: N29

HMS Proteus was a Parthian-class submarine designed and built by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy, and was launched on 22 August 1929. Like other submarines in her class she served in China before the war.

Proteus engaged and sank a number of German and Italian merchant ships, troopships, tankers and torpedo boats during her service in the Mediterranean in the Second World War. HMS Proteus was the longest surviving Parthian-class submarine and the only Parthian class submarine to survive the war.

Proteus had a total of nine commanders throughout the war.

Notes

References

• Akermann, Paul (2002). Encyclopaedia of British Submarines 1901–1955 (reprint of the 1989 ed.). Penzance, Cornwall: Periscope Publishing. ISBN 1-904381-05-7. 
• Bagnasco, Erminio (1977). Submarines of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-962-6. 
• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. 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. OCLC 67375475. 
• Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. 
• McCartney, Innes (2006). British Submarines 1939–1945. New Vanguard. 129. Oxford, UK: Osprey. ISBN 1-84603-007-2. 

External links

• IWM Interview with Philip Francis, who commanded HMS Proteus in 1942
• Information on Proteus
• Information on the Parthian Submarine class. Includes Information on Proteus