History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Vineyard
Namesake	Vineyard, a plantation of grape-bearing vines
Operator	Royal Navy
Ordered	21 May 1942
Builder	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, England
Laid down	21 May 1943
Launched	8 May 1944
Commissioned	Never
Fate	Transferred to Free French Naval Forces 30 June 1944 or 1 August 1944 (see text) Returned by French Navy 18 November 1947 Scrapped June 1950
France
Name	Doris
Namesake	Doris, a sea goddess in Greek mythology
Operator	Free French Naval Forces
Acquired	30 June 1944 or 1 August 1944 (see text)
Commissioned	1 August 1944
Fate	Returned to Royal Navy 18 November 1947
General characteristics
Class and type	V-class submarine
Displacement	545 long tons (554  t) surfaced 740 long tons (752 t) submerged
Length	62.33 m (204 ft 6 in)
Beam	4.9 m (16 ft 1 in)
Draught	4.65 m (15 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	2 x Paxman diesel engines, 615  bhp (459  kW); 55–56 tonnes (54–55 long tons; 61–62 short tons) diesel fuel 2 x electric motors 825 shp (615 kW)
Speed	11.25 knots (20.8 km/h; 12.9 mph) surfaced 8.5 or 10 knots (15.7 or 18.5 km/h; 9.8 or 11.5 mph) submerged (sources disagree)
Test depth	91.4 m (300 ft)
Complement	42
Armament	4 × 533 mm (21 in) bow torpedo tubes 8 torpedoes or 6 mines 1 × 76 mm (3 in) deck gun 3 × 7.7 mm (.303-calibre) machine guns

Doris (P84) was a British-built V-class submarine loaned to the Free French Naval Forces in 1944 during World War II. She was returned to the Royal Navy in 1947 and scrapped in 1950.

Construction and commissioning

The British Royal Navy ordered Doris on 21 May 1942, with the name HMS Vineyard and the pennant number P84. ^{[1] [2]} Vineyard′s keel was laid down in the United Kingdom at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, England, a year later on 21 May 1943 by Vickers-Armstrong. ^{[1] [2]} She was launched on 8 May 1944. ^{[1] [2]}

The Royal Navy decided to loan Vineyard to the Free French Naval Forces, who initially planned to rename her Laubeuf, then considered Joule before settling on the name Doris. ^[1] The Free French submarine Minerve had been badly damaged in a friendly fire attack by a Royal Air Force patrol plane in October 1943, and after the Free French decided not to repair her, they gave her crew the option of transferring to Doris, transferring to the submarine Curie, or leaving the French submarine force entirely to serve aboard a Free French surface warship. ^[1] Minerve′s officers and crew chose to man Doris, and they reported aboard her on 5 June 1944. ^[1]

On either 30 June ^[1] or 1 August 1944, ^[2] according to different sources, the Royal Navy transferred the submarine to the Free French Naval Forces. ^{[1] [2]} The second French Navy submarine to bear the name Doris, she was commissioned into service in the Free French Naval Forces on 1 August 1944, retaining the British pennant number P84 in French service. ^{[1] [2]}

Service history

After training and testing on the River Clyde in Scotland, Doris departed the United Kingdom for Oran in French Algeria on 4 October 1944. ^[1] By February 1945 she was based at Toulon, France, where she supported training activities at the sound school. ^[1] Her commanding officer in the spring of 1945 was the French Resistance figure Jacques Le Gall. Doris returned to Oran later in 1945. ^[1]

By 1946 Doris was at La Pallice, France. ^[1] The French Navy returned her to the Royal Navy on 18 November 1947. ^{[1] [2]} She made stopovers at the submarine bases at Lorient and Brest, France, before her arrival in the United Kingdom. ^[1]

In June 1950 Doris was scrapped in the United States at Charlestown in Boston, Massachusetts. ^{[1] [2]}

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Akermann, Paul (2002). Encyclopedia of British Submarines 1901–1955. Periscope Publishing Ltd. p. 446. ISBN  1-90438-105-7..
• J. J. Colledge; Ben Warlow (2010). Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present. Casemate / Greenhill. p. 433. ISBN  978-1-61200-027-5.
• Claude Huan; Jean Moulin (16 February 2010). Les sous-marins français 1945–2000 (in French). Rennes: Marines éditions. p. 40. ISBN  978-2-35743-041-9.

External links

• "Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom de Doris". Net-Marine (in French). Retrieved 19 January 2020..
• Guðmundur Helgason. "FFL Doris (P 84)". uboat.net. Retrieved 19 January 2020..
• "Doris II ex H.M.S. "Vineyard" (T2 P 84)". Bases Sous-Marines – Sous-Marins et U-Boote – La Bataille de l'Atlantique (in French). Retrieved 19 January 2020..
• "Sous marin de patrouille Ex-Anglais" (PDF). AGASM (in French). 23 May 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2020..