HMS Rorqual

HMS Rorqual (N74) was a British mine-laying submarine, one of the six ships of the Grampus class of the Royal Navy. She was built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched 27 July 1936. She served in the Second World War in the Mediterranean and in the far east. She was the only Grampus-class submarine to survive the war, and she is considered the most successful minelaying submarine of World War II, sinking 57,704 GRT of enemy shipping, 35,951 of which through her mines.

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1937  Wikidata
N74
Grampus-class submarine, minelaying submarine, Vickers-Armstrongs, Royal Navy, United Kingdom, 

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1937 HMS Rorqual

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World War II Q362

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ship commissioning

1935-05-01T00:00:00Z

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keel laying

1936-07-27T00:00:00Z

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ship launching

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Frameless

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