Expunger | National Historic Ships

Registration number 448

Status Registered

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Details

Function Fighting Vessel

Subfunction Submarine

Location Chatham Historic Dockyard

Vessel type Midget Submarine

Current use Museum based

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Web address http://www.chdt.org.uk/

Construction

Builder Broadbent, Thomas & Sons, Huddersfield

Built in 1945

Hull material Steel

Rig None

Number of decks 1

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

5.84 feet (1.78m)

Length: Overall

53.15 feet (16.21m)

History

Built in 1945 by Thomas Broadbent & Sons of Huddersfield for the Royal Navy, EXPUNGER is a midget submarine of steel construction with a 30 horsepower Gardner diesel engine. As HMS EXPUNGER, she was of the type used to disable the German battleship TIRPITZ during World War II. She sank off the South Coast in 1952 while serving as a target and was raised in 1973. She is now preserved ashore at Chatham Dockyard.

Key dates

1945
Built by Thomas Broadbent & Sons as a Midget Submarine for the Royal Navy
1952
Sank off the south coast while serving as a target
1973
Raised and preserved on shore at Chatham Dockyard by the Imperial War Museum

Sources

Brouwer, Norman J, International Register of Historic Ships, Anthony Nelson, pp149-150, Edition 2 1993

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