title: Parthian-class submarine
text: # Parthian-class submarine
  
  The Parthian-class submarine or P class was a class of six submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. They were designed as long-range patrol submarines for the Far East. These boats were almost identical to the Odin class, the only difference being a different bow shape.
  
  ## Boats
  
  Construction data :
  
  | Name | Builder | Launched | Fate |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Pandora (ex-Python) | Vickers, Barrow | 22 August 1929 | Sunk by Italian aircraft in harbour at Valletta, Malta, 1 April 1942; Raised but not repaired, September 1943; Hulk scrapped, 1955 |
  | Parthian | Chatham Dockyard | 22 June 1929 | Lost in the Adriatic, presumed mined, 6 August – 11 August 1943 |
  | Perseus | Vickers, Barrow | 22 May 1929 | Mined in the Ionian Sea between the islands of Kefallonia and Zakynthos off the west coast of Greece, 6 December 1941 |
  | Phoenix | Cammell Laird | 3 October 1929 | Presumed sunk in depth charge attack by the Italian torpedo boat Albatros off the coast of Sicily, 16 July 1940 |
  | Poseidon | Vickers, Barrow | 21 June 1929 | Sank in accidental collision with a merchant steamer, 9 June 1931; Wreck alleged to have been salvaged by China during 1970s |
  | Proteus | Vickers, Barrow | 23 July 1929 | Scrapped at Troon, March 1946 |
  