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HMS Churchill (S46)

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Career RN Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down: 30 June 1967
Launched: 20 December 1968
Commissioned: 15 July 1970
Decommissioned: 28 February 1991
Fate: Decommissioned
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 4,900 tonnes submerged
Length: 86.9 m
Beam: 10.1 m
Draught: 8.2 m
Propulsion: One nuclear reactor, one shaft
Speed: 28 knots submerged
Range:
Complement: 103
Armament: 6 x 533 mm tubes capable of firing:
Mark 8 torpedoes
Tigerfish torpedoes
RN Sub Harpoon Missiles
Motto:

HMS Churchill (S46) was the first off three Churchill class hunter-killer nuclear submarine that served with the British Royal Navy.