hms phoenix class submarine royal_navy launched eighteenth warship royal_navy use phoenix served china station commissioning start second world war phoenix relocated mediterranean_sea sunk italian torpedo boat july design class designed improvement earlier class new class larger built stem given shield cover inch gun class design flaw external fuel tanks leaked leaving oil trail surface phoenix fitted cycle blast injection cylinder diesel engine provided horsepower submerged propulsion provided horsepower electric motor phoenix feet long breadth feet displaced long tons water submerged submarines class outfitted inch torpedo tubes inch gun machine guns class outfitted mark viii torpedo phoenix tubes bow tubes stern submarines class designed complement officers men phoenix crew history phoenix laid shipyard ship 18th series british warships named mythical phoenix motto latin rise phoenix originally deployed 4th submarine flotilla ships china station tasked trade protection symbol british power later september phoenix depot ship ordered travel mediterranean mediterranean ships participated naval exercises including crash dive manoeuvre months later small group ordered hong_kong april flotilla ordered mediterranean_sea support naval operations 1st submarine flotilla established service second world war phoenix stationed alexandria patrolled waters june july july phoenix command given task screening convoy british ships bringing supplies malta alexandria phoenix contact report july sighting italian battle fleet admiral ordered ships cut italian fleet base taranto led phoenix fired torpedoes italian battleships missed targets coast sicily phoenix fired torpedoes italian torpedo boat missed counter attacked sank phoenix depth charges hands lost
HMS Phoenix (N96)