HMS Swiftsure (S126)

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Career
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	September 7, 1971
Commissioned:	April 17, 1973
Decommissioned:	1992
Fate:	Decommissioned
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4,900 tonnes (dived)
Length:	82.9 m
Beam:	9.8 m
Draught:	8.5 m
Propulsion:
Speed:	In excess of 20 knots, dived
Range:
Complement:	116 officers and men
Armament:	5 x 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, Spearfish torpedoes, RN Sub Harpoon missiles, Tomahawk missiles
Motto:

The HMS Swiftsure (S126) was the lead ship of her class of nuclear attack submarines. HMS Swiftsure was decommissioned in 1992 due to damage suffered to the pressure hull during trials.

See HMS Swiftsure for other ships of the same name.

Swiftsure-class submarine

Swiftsure | Sovereign | Superb | Sceptre | Spartan | Splendid

List of submarines of the Royal Navy List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

 

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