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Explorer-class submarine
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<h2 id="boats">Boats</h2> <table><tbody><tr><th>Name</th><th>Pennant No.</th><th>Builder</th><th>Launched</th><th>Commissioned</th><th>Status</th></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/HMS_Explorer_(submarine)/ANHK8Evk"><i>Explorer</i></a></td><td>S30</td><td rowspan="2"><a href="/facts/Vickers-Armstrongs/Xb6osoo8">Vickers-Armstrongs</a>, <a href="/facts/Barrow-in-Furness/ndD6hSvE">Barrow-in-Furness</a></td><td>5 March 1954</td><td>28 November 1956</td><td>Sold for scrap</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/HMS_Excalibur/CGnpLS7r"><i>Excalibur</i></a></td><td>S40</td><td>25 February 1955</td><td>26 February 1958</td><td>Sold for scrap</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2> <ul><li>Miller, David; Jordan, John (1987). <i>Modern Submarine Warfare</i>. London: Salamander Books. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-86101-317-4.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Antony_Preston/8VpnUvMP">Preston, Antony</a> (1995). "United Kingdom". In Chumbley, Stephen (ed.). <i>Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995</i>. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 95–131. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1-55750-132-7.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Miller & Jordan, p. 63 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Brown, George (30 May 2024). "HMS EXPLORER - A Personal experience by George Brian Brown". <a href="http://www.hmsresolution.org.uk/forends/SUSPENEDED%20PAGES" target="_blank">http://www.hmsresolution.org.uk/forends/SUSPENEDED%20PAGES</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Miller & Jordan, p. 63 <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Preston, p. 527 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Explorer Class Experimental Submarines". Archived from the original on 4 April 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2009.. Retrieved 7-3-2009. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090404034055/http://www.btinternet.com/~warship/Postwar/Submarines/perox.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20090404034055/http://www.btinternet.com/~warship/Postwar/Submarines/perox.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>