HMS Spearhead (P263)

HMS Spearhead
Career
Class and type:	S class submarine
Name:	HMS Spearhead
Builder:	Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead
Laid down:	18 August 1943
Launched:	October 2, 1944
Commissioned:	21 December 1944
Renamed:	to Portuguese Navy as Neptuno
Fate:	sold 1948
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General characteristics
Displacement:	814-872 tons surfaced 990 tons submerged
Length:	217 ft (66 m)
Beam:	23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Draught:	11 ft (3.4 m)
Speed:	14.75 knots surfaced 8 knots submerged
Complement:	48 officers and men
Armament:	6 x forward 21-inch torpedo tubes, one aft 13 torpedoes one three-inch gun (four-inch on later boats) one 20 mm cannon three .303-calibre machine gun

HMS Spearhead was an S class submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Cammell Laird and launched on July 6, 1944. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Spearhead.^[1]

Spearhead survived the Second World War and was sold to the Portuguese in August 1948 and renamed Neptuno.

References

1. ^ HMS Spearhead, Uboat.net

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.