Submarine is being built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Shipbuilders) Ltd; length 266 ft, beam 32 ft, surface displacement about 3500 tons; pressure hull diam is 32 ft; appearance suggests whale with blunt nose, hemispherical below center line and smoothed-off cone above, merging into vestigial casing which tails away to bare pressure hull; there are two fins forward, no control surfaces on conning tower and pair of fins and rudders forward of single propeller right aft; steam turbines and pressurized water reactor are fitted.


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    Title :

    Launch of H.M.S. "Dreadnought"


    Additional title:

    Mar Engr Naval Architect


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1960


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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