HMS Vox

Last updated November 23, 2021

Two submarines of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vox, after the Latin for Voice:

HMS Vox (P67), a British U-class submarine launched in 1943, that upon completion was transferred to the Free French Navy as the French submarine Curie. She was returned to the Royal Navy in 1946, and scrapped in 1949.
HMS Vox (P73) - a British V-class submarine launched in 1943 and scrapped in 1946.

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HMS Vox (P73) was a Royal Navy V-class submarine that served in the latter part of World War II, from 1943 to 1946, before it was scrapped at Cochin. An earlier HMS Vox had been transferred to France as Curie.

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