HMS Acheron (P411)

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HMS Acheron (P411) was an Template:Sclass of the Royal Navy, laid down 26 August 1944, launched 25 March 1947 and completed in 1948.

Design

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Service history

Acheron took part in the Coronation Review of the Fleet to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.<ref>Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15 June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden</ref> she carried out 'General Naval Service' around the UK until the end of 1964. A geomagnetic storm in February 1956, during solar cycle 19, interfered with radio communications and prompted a search for the submarine after she lost radio contact.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> From August to December 1959, she took part in a cruise to South Africa and Pakistan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

She was decommissioned and broken up in 1972 at the yard of J Cashmore of Newport.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Publications

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|_exclude=case, year, _debug
| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8
| OCLC = 67375475

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External links

• Pictures of HMS Acheron at MaritimeQuest