HMS P611
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HMS P611 was a submarine of the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". 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
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- Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 to the Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson
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