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SPIGGEN midget submarine (1955/1958)


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sister-boat Sprat 1957  

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

Spiggen (ex-X51 Stickleback)

Armstrong-Vickers, Barrow: Spiggen

1955 // 7.1958: Spiggen

none

none

1/1970: Spiggen



Technical data


Displacement standard, t32
Displacement normal, t

35 / 39

Length, m

15.4 pp 16.4 oa

Breadth, m

1.80

Draught, m

2.30

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 Perkins P6 diesel / 1 electric motor

Power, h. p.

50 / 44

Max speed, kts

6.5 / 6

Fuel, t

diesel oil 1.2

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 detachable 2t side-charges

Electronic equipment 
Complement

5

Diving depth operational, m90


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sister-boat <i>Sprat</i> 1957  
sister-boat Sprat 1957  


Project history

Ex-RN midget submarine sold to Sweden, used as training platform for attack divers.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Stricken 27 January 1970 and used as experimental boat. Presented to Imperial War Museum, London, 1975.