Churchill Class
'Fleet Submarine'
(SSN)
- Churchill Class
- Churchill
- Conqueror
- Courageous
This class was more or less identical to the Valiants but with much improved internal modifications.
3 Built
| Submarine | Builder | Built |
| Churchill Conqueror Courageous |
Vickers,
Barrow-in-Furness. Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. |
1970 1971 1971 |
Technical information
| Displacement (tons): | 3,500
sf 4,800 sm |
| Length (metric): | 86.9 oa |
| Breadth (metric) | 10.1 |
| Draught/Height (metric): | 8.2 |
| Machinery: | 1 x Pressurised
water reactor. 2 x English Electric Steam Turbines - 15,000 shp. 1 shaft. |
| Speed (kts): | 25 sf 30 sm |
| Oil Supply (tons): | na |
| Armament: | 6 x 21
inch forward tubes. 26 reloads. |
| Sensors: | 1 x 1006, 1 x ESM. |
| Sonars: | 1 x 183, 1 x 2001. |
| Range: | na |
| Complement: | 13 Officers and 90 Others. |
| sm = submerged,
sf = surfaced, oa = overall, hp = horsepower, na = not available. |
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H.M. Submarine Churchill.
H.M. Submarine Churchill in decommission.
| Type: | 'Fleet Submarine' SSN |
| Class | Churchill Class |
| Pennant No.: | S46 |
| Builder | Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. |
| Laid Down: | 30th June 1967. |
| Launched | 20th December 1968. |
| Commissioned: | 15th July 1970. |
| Commander: | Not known at present. |
| Complement: | 13 Officers and 90 Ratings. |
| Fate: | Carried out trials with McDonnell Douglas Sub-Harpoon system in 1979-81. She was the last nuclear boat to undergo a refit at the Chatham Royal Dockyard in 1983. |
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H.M. Submarine Conqueror.
| Type: | 'Fleet Submarine' SSN |
| Class | Churchill Class |
| Pennant No.: | S48 |
| Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. |
| Laid Down: | 5th December 1967. |
| Launched | 18th August 1969. |
| Commissioned: | 9th November 1971. |
| Commander: | 1982 - C. Wreford-Brown. |
| Complement: | 13 Officers and 90 Ratings. |
| Fate: | Carried
out Tigerfish trials in 1978. She was also responsible
for carrying out the attack and sinking of the Argentinian cruiser,
General Belgrano during the Falklands campaign in May of 1982. Paid off at Devonport on 2nd August 1990. |
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H.M. Submarine
Courageous.
| Type: | 'Fleet Submarine' SSN |
| Class | Churchill Class |
| Pennant No.: | S50 |
| Builder | Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. |
| Laid Down: | 15th May 1968. |
| Launched | 7th March 1970. |
| Commissioned: | 16th October 1971. |
| Commander: | 1982 - R. Best. |
| Complement: | 13 Officers and 90 Ratings. |
| Fate: | No details at present. |
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