HMS Pandora (N42)
HMS Pandora was a British Parthian-class submarine commissioned in 1930 and lost in 1942 during the Second World War. This class was the first to be fitted with Mark VIII torpedoes. On 4 July 1940 she torpedoed and sank the French aviso Rigault de Genouilly off the Algerian coast. In an extension of the Lend-Lease program, Pandora, along with three other British and French submarines, was overhauled at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the United States. She was sunk on 1 April 1942 by Italian aircraft at the Valletta dockyard, Malta.
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HMS Pandora (N42)
HMS Pandora was a British Parthian-class submarine commissioned in 1930 and lost in 1942 during the Second World War. This class was the first to be fitted with Mark VIII torpedoes. On 4 July 1940 she torpedoed and sank the French aviso Rigault de Genouilly off the Algerian coast. In an extension of the Lend-Lease program, Pandora, along with three other British and French submarines, was overhauled at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the United States. She was sunk on 1 April 1942 by Italian aircraft at the Valletta dockyard, Malta.
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HMS Pandora was a British Part ...... the Valletta dockyard, Malta.
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commissioning date
1930-06-30
laying down
1928-07-09
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order date
1928-02-07
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ship launched
1929-08-22
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Sunk by aircraft, 1 April 1942
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28,703,539
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729,113,457
Ship armament
*8 × torpedo tubes
*1 × deck gun
*2 × machine guns
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Ship country
United Kingdom
Ship displacement
* surfaced
* submerged
Ship identification
Pennant number: N42
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Ship propulsion
*Diesel-electric
*2 Admiralty diesel engines,
*2 Electric motors,
*2 shafts
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HMS Pandora was a British Part ...... the Valletta dockyard, Malta.
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HMS Pandora (N42)
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HMS Pandora
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