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HMS P611

Submarine of the Royal Navy

Summary

Submarine of the Royal Navy

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image	Turkish submarine Oruc Reis DzKK.jpg
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country	United Kingdom
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name	HMS P611
builder	Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
laid_down	24 May 1939
launched	19 July 1940
commissioned	1 December 1941
fate	Transferred to the Turkish Navy, 9 May 1942
namesake	Aruj Barbarossa, also known as Oruç Reis
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country	Turkey
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name	Oruç Reis
acquired	9 May 1942
fate	Broken up 1957
section4	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
class	submarine
displacement	*624 tons standard, 683 tons full load surfaced
length	64 m
beam	6.81 m
draught	3.61 m
propulsion	*Two shaft diesel-electric
speed	*13.7 kn surfaced
range	2500 nmi at 10 kn
complement	41 men
armament	*5 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes – 4 bow internal, one stern external

856 tons submerged
Vickers diesels – 1200 hp
Electric motors – 780 hp
8.4 kn submerged
nine torpedoes
1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun
1 × 20 mm gun

'*HMS P611''' was a submarine of the originally built for the Turkish Navy intended to be named *Oruç Reis'', but commissioned into the Royal Navy after the outbreak of war.

TCG ''Oruç Reis''

She was a modified British S class design launched on 19 July 1940 by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. Due to the pressing need for her, she was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 1 December 1941 so she could be sent to Turkey. It was not until 26 March 1942 that she left the Clyde for Gibraltar. On 7 April she left Gibraltar for Alexandria, where she arrived on 25 April. She arrived at the Turkish naval base at İskenderun on 9 May 1942 and was handed over to the Turkish Navy as Oruç Reis. She would continue in service with the Turkish Navy, operating in the Mediterranean, and remained in service after the Second World War ended. She was finally broken up in 1957.

References

Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 to the Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson

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