HMS Vigorous (P74)

HMS Vigorous was a V-class submarine of the Royal Navy (RN). Pennant number P74.

HMS Vigorous in 1944
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Vigorous
Builder	Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down	14 December 1942
Launched	15 October 1943
Commissioned	13 January 1944
Identification	Pennant number P74
Fate	Scrapped at Stockton-on-Tees, 23 December 1949
General characteristics
Class & type	V-class submarine
Displacement	545 tons (standard - surfaced) 658 tons (full load - surfaced) 740 tons (submerged)
Length	204 ft 6 in (62.33 m)
Beam	16 ft 1 in (4.90 m)
Draught	15 ft 3 in (4.65 m)
Propulsion	2 shaft diesel-electric 2 Paxman Ricardo diesel generators + electric motors 615 hp (459 kW) / 825 hp (615 kW)
Speed	11.25 knots (20.84 km/h) surfaced 10 knots (19 km/h) submerged
Complement	33
Armament	4 × bow internal 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 8-10 torpedoes 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) deck gun

The boat was laid down by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness on 14 December 1942. She was launched on 15 October 1943, and commissioned into the RN on 13 January 1944.

The submarine operated during the late stages of World War II. On 26 September 1944, HMS Vigorous torpedoed and sank the German merchant Salomea (751 BRT, former Greek Evangelos Nomikos) off Kassandra, Greece.

The submarine was decommissioned after the war and was broken up for scrap at Stockton-on-Tees, 23 December 1949.

References

• Cassells, Vic (2000). The Destroyers: their battles and their badges. East Roseville, NSW: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7318-0893-2. OCLC 46829686.
• "HMS Vigorous (P74)". uboat.net. Retrieved 2 February 2007.