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{{Short description|Type of British submarines in service after WWI and during WWII}}
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{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}
{{more citations needed|date=January 2013}}
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|Ship image=HMS Phoenix 1939 AWM 302469.jpg
|Ship caption= HMS ''Phoenix'', 1939
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{{Infobox ship class overview
|Name=''Parthian'' class
|Builders=
|Operators={{navy|United Kingdom}}
|Class before={{sclass|Odin|submarine|4}}
|Class after={{sclass|Rainbow|submarine|4}}
|Subclasses=
|Cost=
|Built range=
|In service range=   
|In commission range=1929–1946
|Total ships building= 
|Total ships planned=
|Total ships completed=6
|Total ships cancelled=
|Total ships active=
|Total ships laid up=
|Total ships lost=5
|Total ships retired=
|Total ships preserved=
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{{Infobox ship characteristics
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|Header caption= <ref>Conway's ''All the World's Fighting Ships''</ref>
|Ship type=[[Submarine]]
|Ship displacement=*{{convert|1760|LT|t|0|lk=in|abbr=on}} surfaced
*{{convert|2040|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} submerged
|Ship length= {{convert|289|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam= {{convert|30|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship height=
|Ship draught={{convert|16|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=*[[Diesel-electric]]
*2 × Admiralty diesel engines, {{convert|4,640|hp|abbr=on}}
*2 × electric motors, {{convert|1,635|hp|abbr=on}}
*2 shafts
|Ship speed=*{{convert|17.5|kn|mph km/h|lk=in}} surfaced
*{{convert|8.6|kn|mph km/h|abbr=on}} submerged 
|Ship range=
|Ship endurance=
|Ship test depth=
|Ship complement=53
|Ship sensors=
|Ship EW=
|Ship armament=*8 × [[British 21 inch torpedo|21 in (533 mm)]] [[torpedo tube]]s (6 bow, 2 stern) with 14 reloads
*1 × [[QF 4 inch naval gun Mk IV, XII, XXII|QF {{convert|4|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} Mk XII deck gun]]
*''After 1942'' :
*2 × [[20 mm Oerlikon]] cannons
*Equipped to lay [[Naval mine|mines]] through torpedo tubes
|Ship armour=
|Ship notes=
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The '''''Parthian''-class submarine''' or '''P class''' was a class of six [[submarine]]s built for the [[Royal Navy]] in the late 1920s. They were designed as long-range patrol submarines for the Far East.  These boats were almost identical to the {{sclass|Odin|submarine|4}}, the only difference being a different bow shape.

==Boats==
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|+ Construction data
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! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Builder
! scope="col" | Launched
! scope="col" | Fate
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Pandora|N42|2}} ({{nowrap|ex-''Python''}})
| [[Vickers]], Barrow
| 22 August 1929 
| Sunk by Italian aircraft in harbour at Valletta, Malta, 1 April 1942; Raised but not repaired, September 1943; Hulk scrapped, 1955
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Parthian|N75|2}}
| [[Chatham Dockyard]]
| 22 June 1929 
| Lost in the Adriatic, presumed [[naval mine|mined]], 6 August{{snd}}11 August 1943
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Perseus|N36|2}}
| [[Vickers]], Barrow
| 22 May 1929 
| Mined in the Ionian Sea between the islands of [[Kefallonia]] and [[Zakynthos]] off the west coast of Greece, 6 December 1941
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Phoenix|N96|2}}
| [[Cammell Laird]]
| 3 October 1929 
| Presumed sunk in [[depth charge]] attack by the Italian torpedo boat ''Albatros'' off the coast of [[Sicily]], 16 July 1940
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Poseidon|1929|2}}
| [[Vickers]], Barrow
| 21 June 1929 
| Sank in accidental collision with a merchant steamer, 9 June 1931; Wreck alleged to have been salvaged by China during 1970s<ref>{{cite news |last= Ryall |first= Julian |date= 12 June 2009 |place= Weihai |title= China accused of secretly salvaging sunken British submarine containing 18 lost sailors |publication-place= London |newspaper= [[The Daily Telegraph]] |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5515941/China-accused-of-secretly-salvaging-sunken-British-submarine-containing-18-lost-sailors.html |access-date= 15 September 2021}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{HMS|Proteus|N29|2}}
| [[Vickers]], Barrow
| 23 July 1929 
| Scrapped at [[Troon]], March 1946
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|last=Akermann|first=Paul|title=Encyclopaedia of British Submarines 1901–1955|edition=reprint of the 1989|year=2002|publisher=Periscope Publishing|location=Penzance, Cornwall|isbn=1-904381-05-7}}
*{{cite book|last=Bagnasco |first=Erminio |title=Submarines of World War Two |year=1977 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=0-87021-962-6}} 
* {{cite journal|last1=Caruana|first1=Joseph|year=2012 |title=Emergency Victualling of Malta During WWII|journal=Warship International|volume=LXIX |issue=4 |pages=357–364 |issn=0043-0374}}
*{{Cite Colledge2006}}
*{{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=Greenwich, UK|year=1980|isbn=0-85177-146-7}}
*{{cite book|last=McCartney|first=Innes|location=Oxford, UK|title=British Submarines 1939–1945|series=New Vanguard|volume=129|year=2006|publisher=Osprey|isbn=1-84603-007-2}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Parthian class submarine}}
*{{ cite web | url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/parthian.htm  | title = ''Parthian'' class submarine | work = Battleships-cruisers.co.uk | access-date = 2006-12-02 }}
*{{ cite web | url = http://rnsubs.co.uk/boats/subs/parthian-class.html | title = ''Parthian'' class | work =rnsubs.co.uk|access-date = 27 September 2022}}
*{{cite web | url = https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3404.html| title = HMS ''Pandora'' | work = Uboat.net | access-date = 27 September 2022 }}

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