You can add to and alter the basic model to make it into a specific submarine. Some boats had the classic conning tower with the protruding lip, others had the rounded tower with three portholes. Some boats had bandstands with Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns, some had a stern torpedo. Many of these boats 'morphed' through these different stages.

The S-class submarines of the Royal Navy were originally designed and built during the modernisation of the submarine
force in the early 1930s to meet the need for smaller boats to patrol the restricted waters of the North Sea and the
Mediterranean Sea replacing the H class submarines. Due to major naval construction of the Royal Navy during the Second
World War, however, the S class became the largest single group of submarines ever built for the Royal Navy; a total of 62
were constructed over a period of 15 years, with fifty of the "improved" S-class launched between 1940 and 1945.

The submarines operated in the waters around the United Kingdom and in the Mediterranean, and later in the Far East after
being fitted with extra tanks.

After the war S class boats continued to serve in the Royal Navy until the 1960s. The last operational boat in the Royal Navy
was HMS Sea Devil, launched in 1945 and scrapped in February 1966.

There were 62 boats made in three classes or groups, giving the modelmaker a huge range of modifications, as almost every
boat was slightly different.

• Displacement: 814-872 tons surfaced
• 990 tons submerged
• Length: 217 ft
• Beam: 23 ft 6 in
• Draught: 11 ft
• Speed: 14.75 knots surfaced
• 8 knots submerged
• Complement: 48 officers and men
• Armament: 6 x forward 21-inch torpedo tubes, one aft, 13 torpedoes, one three-inch gun (four-inch on later boats), one 20 mm cannon, three .303-calibre machine gun

Some boats had a lip on the conning tower, which looked very similar to the German U boats, others had a domed front with
three portholes. Some had 4” guns with no stern torpedo tube, others had a torpedo tube added and a weight reduction made
by replacing the 4” Bofors with a 3” gun. Some carried a bandstand behind the conning tower, on which was mounted an
Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun. Colors varied, a Brunswick Green top and a muddy brown belly was the norm in the Middle East;
plain grey and light and dark patches were also used. By adding these sorts of distinguishing marks, this model can be made
to become a specific boat. We have an extensive library of photographs on a CD, further enhanced with plans from Lambert
Plans.

Just look at the incredible variety of conning towers, that eventually became sails – all on the same basic hull!

For some excellent sets of plans, visit http://lambert-plans.com/encom/ships_submarines.htm

Kit comes with 2 hull halves, dive planes, rudder, and Conning Tower

Requires a D&E Sub-driver 3.5/2

Scale: 1 to 38
Hull: 68.5 inch
Beam: 7 inch
Draft: HEIGHT 12.75 inch