HMS Walrus (S08)
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| Name: | HMS Walrus |
| Builder: | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock |
| Laid down: | 12 February 1958 |
| Launched: | 22 September 1959 |
| Commissioned: | 10 February 1961 |
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| Class & type: | Porpoise class submarine |
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| Length: | 290 ft (88 m) |
| Beam: | 26 ft 7 in (8.10 m) |
| Draught: | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
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| Range: | 9,000 nmi (17,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 71 |
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HMS Walrus (S08) was the last of the Porpoise class submarines of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 22 September 1959, and commissioned on 10 February 1961.[1]
On one occasion during exercises with HMS Ark Royal (R09) an error resulted in a practice torpedo becoming embedded in the submarine's casing.[2]
Following an 18-month refit at Devonport Dockyard she commissioned for the third time on 3 December 1969. In 1970 she was present at Portsmouth Navy Days[3] Walrus also attended the 1977 Silver Jubilee Fleet Review off Spithead when she was part of the Submarine Flotilla.[4]
She was sold in 1987 to the Seaforth Group to be refitted for resale to Egypt, but was broken up at Grimsby in 1991.
Commanding Officers
| From | To | Captain |
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| 1961 | 1962 | Lieutenant Commander John Fieldhouse RN |
| 1965 | 1966 | Lieutenant Commander M C Bourdillon RN |
| 1970 | 1970 | Lieutenant Commander H K P Michell RN |
| 1971 | 1972 | Lieutenant Commander A W M Stephens RN |
| 1972 | 1973 | Lieutenant Commander J S Lang RN |
| 1974 | 1976 | Lieutenant Commander Roger Lane-Nott RN |
| 1977 | 1977 | Lieutenant Commander M G Jones RN |
| 1977 | 1978 | Lieutenant Commander H Keay RN |
| 1978 | 1979 | Lieutenant Commander P P Jeanneret RN |
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