Aeneas Crest

Large Patrol Submarine

 

Type:
A Class



Pennant No.:
P.427
S.27
S.72

Laid Down:
10th October 1944.
Cammell Laird, Birkenhead.

Commissioned:
31st July 1946.
Lt. T.S. Weston DSC, DSO.

Commander:
Mar. 1946 - Oct. 1947
Lt. T.S. Weston DSC, DSO.
Dec. 1947
Lt. D.W. Mills.
Oct. 1950
Lt. Cdr. I.S. McIntosh DSO MBE DSC.
Mar. 1953
Lt. Cdr. D.C.R. Walters.
June 1955
Lt. Cdr. I.W. Marchant.
June 1959
Lt. K.R.B. Cadogan-Rawlinson.
Sept. 1963
Lt. Cdr. B.O. Forbes.
Dec. 1967
Lt. J.F. Coward.
Oct. 1969
Lt. Cdr. R.D. Hunter.

Complement:
61
64
6 Officers and 55 Ratings.
6 Officers and 58 Ratings after modernisation.

Service Career:
1948
4th Flotilla, HMS Adamant, Singapore.
1949 - 1950
5th Flotilla, HMS Dolphin, Gosport.
1950 - 1953
3rd Flotilla, Rothesay.
1955 - 1957
5th Sqdn, HMS Dolphin, Gosport.
1957 - 1958
Refit - Portsmouth.
1958 - 1960
5th Sqdn, HMS Dolphin, Gosport.
1962 - 1965
2nd Sqdn, HMS Forth/Adamant, Devonport.
1966 - 1968
1st Sqdn, HMS Dolphin, Gosport.
1969
2nd Sqdn, Devonport.

Fate:
Aeneas was loaned to the Vickers group in 1972 for trials with the Submarine Launched Air Missile which at the time was under development.

Scrapped 13th December 1974.