HMS Auriga (P419)


HMS Auriga , was an of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 29 March 1945.

Design

Auriga had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. It had a total length of, a beam of, and a draught of. The submarine was powered by two Admiralty ML eight-cylinder diesel engines generating each. Four electric motors each producing drove two shafts. It could carry a maximum of of diesel, although it usually carried between.
The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a submerged speed of. When submerged, it could operate at for or at for. Surfaced, it could travel at or at. Armament was ten torpedo tubes, one QF 4 inch naval gun Mk XXIII, one Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, and a.303 British Vickers machine gun. Its torpedo tubes were fitted to the bow and stern, and it could carry twenty torpedoes. Its complement was sixty-one crew members.

Service history

In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In March 1961, the submarine was among the vessels that took part in a combined naval exercise with the United States Navy off Nova Scotia. Auriga departed Canada on 25 April 1961 after completing an 18-month tour with the Sixth Submarine Division at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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