HMS P62
Ship Number
501
Vessel Type
Patrol Boat
Built
Govan Yard
Launch Date
June 7, 1917
Delivered
August 31, 1917
Owner
Admiralty
Weight
682 grt
BP Length
230 feet
Breadth
21 feet
No. of Screws
Twin
Speed (approx)
20 knots
Propulsion
Parsons or Brown-Curtis turbines. Yarrow boilers Designed S.H.P. 3,500
Official No.
Registered
Fate
-
HMS P62

[P62 Sister Ship P68]
Built under Emergency War Programme. Design as P-boats, but these craft were converted or modified while building, to act as Submarine Decoy Vessels or "Q-boats." The after 4 inch gun was hidden behind various forms of dummy deck loads, e.g., bales or packing cases of merchandise, trusses of hay: in a few boats it was located within a collapsible pantechnicon furniture van, or under a dummy boat built in folding sections. It was expected that, on account of shallow draught, torpedoes fired by U-boats would under-run these PC-boats, while, if hit by torpedo, bulge protection and special fillings would keep them afloat long enough to destroy the U-boat.