The Parthian-class submarine or P class was a class of six submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. They were designed as long-range patrol submarines for the Far East. These boats were almost identical to the , the only difference being a different bow shape.
Boats + Construction data Name Builder Launched Fate () Vickers, Barrow 22 August 1929 Sunk by Italian aircraft in harbour at Valletta, Malta, 1 April 1942; Raised but not repaired, September 1943; Hulk scrapped, 1955 Chatham Dockyard 22 June 1929 Lost in the Adriatic, presumed mined, 6 August11 August 1943 Vickers, Barrow 22 May 1929 Mined in the Ionian Sea between the islands of Kefallonia and Zakynthos off the west coast of Greece, 6 December 1941 Cammell Laird 3 October 1929 Presumed sunk in depth charge attack by the Italian torpedo boat Albatros off the coast of Sicily, 16 July 1940 Vickers, Barrow 21 June 1929 Sank in accidental collision with a merchant steamer, 9 June 1931; Wreck alleged to have been salvaged by China during 1970s Vickers, Barrow 23 July 1929 Scrapped at Troon, March 1946
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