HMS Talent (S92)

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Career (UK)
Ordered:	September 10, 1984
Laid down:	May 13, 1986
Launched:	April 15, 1988
Commissioned:	May 12, 1990
Status:	active in service
General Characteristics
Displacement:	Surfaced: 4,740 tons Dived: 5,208 tons
Length:	280.1 ft (85.4 m)
Beam:	32.1 ft (9.8 m)
Draught:	31.2 ft (9.5 m)
Propulsion:	Rolls-Royce PWR1 nuclear reactor 2 × GEC turbines 1 × shaft pump jet 15,000 hp (11 MW) motor for emergency drive emergency retractable propellor 2 × W H Allen turbo generators 2 MW 2 × Paxman diesel alternators 2,800 hp (2.1 MW)
Speed:	Dived: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement:	18 officers 112 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems:	Ferranti/Gresham Dowty DCB/DCG Type 2072 hull-mounted flank array passive sonar Plessey Type 2020 or Marconi/Plessey Type 2074 hull-mounted active and passive search and attack sonar Ferranti Type 2046 towed array passive search sonar Thomson Sintra Type 2019 PARIS or Thorn EMI 2082 passive intercept and ranging sonar Marconi Type 2077 short range active classification sonar Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I band navigation radar Pilkington Optronics CK34 search periscope Pilkington Optronics CH84/CM010 attack periscope Type 2076 sonar scheduled from 2006
Electronic warfare and decoys:	2 × SSE Mk8 launchers for Type 2066 and Type 2071 torpedo decoys RESM Racal UAP passive intercept CESM Outfit CXA SAWCS decoys from 2002
Armament:	5 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes Spearfish torpedoes (originally Tigerfish torpedoes) with 20 reloads UGM-84 Harpoon submarine-launched cruise missile Mines UGM-109 Tomahawk scheduled from 2006

HMS Talent (S92) is a Trafalgar-class submarine of the Royal Navy.

She is affiliated with Shrewsbury in Shropshire.

See HMS Talent for other ships of the same name.

Trafalgar-class submarine

Trafalgar | Turbulent | Tireless | Torbay | Trenchant | Talent | Triumph

List of submarines of the Royal Navy List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy