Alcide Crest

Large Patrol Submarine

 

Type:
A Class



Pennant No.:
P.415
S.65

Laid Down:
2nd January 1945
Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness

Commissioned:
18th October 1946
Lt. Cdr. E.D. Norman DSO DSC.

Commander:
June 1945 - Apr. 1946
Lt. Cdr. E.D. Norman DSO DSC.
Sept. 1947 - July 1948
Lt. Cdr. D.S.R. Martin DSO**.
July 1951 - May 1953
Lt. Cdr. J.S. Launders DSC*.
Oct. 1953 - Apr. 1955
Lt. Cdr. P.T. Miles.
Oct. 1956
Lt. Cdr. J.H. Blacklock.
Aug. 1960
Lt. Cdr. P.N. Hamilton-Jones.
July 1963
Lt. Cdr. S.S.R. Conway.
Oct. 1966
Lt. Cdr. K. Holliday.
1968
Lt. Cdr. J.R. Stevenson.

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

Service Career:
 1947 - 1952
3rd Flotilla, HMS Montclare, Rothesay.
1952 - 1953
3rd Sqdn, (Detached at Halifax, Canada.
1956 - 1957
5th Sqdn, HMS Dolphin, Gosport.
1957
6th Div, Halifax, NS, Canada.
1958 - 1960
Modernisation at either Devonport or Rosyth.
1960 - 1963
2nd Sqdn, HMS Forth/Adamant, Devonport.
1963 - 1966
6th Div, Halifax, NS, Canada.
1967 - 1969
1st Sqdn, HMS Dolphin, Gosport.

Fate:
Present at the Coronation Review in 1953 and the Nato Naval Review in 1969.

Sold - 1974 to Draper and Sons, Hull for breaking up.