HMS Trump (P333)

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Career RN Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down: 31 December 1942 at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Launched: 25 March 1944
Commissioned: 8 July 1944
Decommissioned:
Fate: Scrapped at Newport, Wales August 1971
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 1,290 tons surfaced
1,560 tons submerged
Length: 276 ft 6 in (84.28 m)
Beam: 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m)
Draught: 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) fwd

14 ft 7 in (4.44 m) aft

Propulsion: Two shafts

Twin diesel engines 2,500 hp (1.86 MW) each
Twin electric motors 1,450 hp (1.08 MW) each

Speed: 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h) surfaced

9 knots (20 km/h) submerged

Range: 4,500 nautical miles at 11 knots (8,330 km at 20 km/h) surfaced
Complement: 48
Armament: 6 internal forward facing torpedo tubes

4 external forward facing torpedo tubes
6 reload torpedoes
4 inch (100 mm) deck gun

Diving depth: 300 ft (91 m) max

HMS Trump (P333) was a Group 3 T-class submarine of the Royal Navy.

The all-welded submarine was commissioned in July 1944, during the Second World War and after an initial patrol in the North Sea in mid-October she was sent to the Far East. There, she carried out a further four patrols before the end of the war.

She was extensively modified from February 1954 until June 1956 with the hull being streamlined for faster and quieter underwater speed. This included the removal of the deck gun and the replacement of the conning tower with a "sail", the addition of an extra battery and the insertion of a new 14 feet long section of hull to accommodate extra motors. From 1961 until 1969 she served in the 4th Submarine Flotilla at Sydney, Australia, which included refits at Cockatoo Dockyard in 1962 and 1965. She was scrapped at Newport in August 1971.