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Trades in the Royal Navy are listed below. Branch sub-specialities are denoted with an abbreviation on the branch badge. [2] Ratings in the Marine Engineering and Medical branches may obtain "Dolphins" (qualify for the Royal Navy Submarine Service).
During the war it was awarded five of the Royal Navy's 14 Victoria Crosses of the war, the first was to Lieutenant Norman Holbrook, commanding officer of B11, for passing through minefields to sink the Ottoman warship Mesudiye. Late in the war, the Royal Navy introduced the large K-class submarines. In order to be fast enough to operate ...
Sixteen tubes for Polaris A3 Submarine-launched ballistic missiles were carried, in two rows of eight. [4] The missiles had a range of 2,500 nautical miles (2,900 mi; 4,600 km), [7] [8] and each missile could carry three 200 kt (840 TJ) nuclear warheads. [9] Defensive armament consisted of six 533-millimetre (21 in) torpedo tubes. [4]
The Porpoise class was the first class of operational submarines built for the Royal Navy after the end of the Second World War, and were designed to take advantage of experience gained by studying German Type XXI U-boats and British wartime experiments with the submarine Seraph, which was modified by streamlining and fitting a bigger battery.