HMS Tabard (P342)
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 HMS Tabard |
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| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Scotts, Greenock |
| Laid down: | 6 September 1944 |
| Launched: | 21 November 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 25 June 1946 |
| Fate: | sold January 1974, scrapped March 1974 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | British T class submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,290 tons surfaced 1,560 tons submerged |
| Length: | 276 ft 6 in (84.3 m) |
| Beam: | 25 ft 6 in (7.8 m) |
| Draught: |
12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) forward |
| Propulsion: |
Two shafts |
| Speed: |
15.5 knots (28.7 km/h) surfaced |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles at 11 knots (8,330 km at 20 km/h) surfaced |
| Test depth: | 300 ft (91 m) max |
| Complement: | 61 |
| Armament: |
6 internal forward facing torpedo tubes |
HMS Tabard was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P342 by Scotts, Greenock, and launched on 21 November 1945. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Tabard, possibly after the item of clothing.
Tabard was commissioned after the end of the Second World War, and consequently had a relatively peaceful career. On 8 May 1963, Tabard was involved in a minor collision with Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Queenborough, following a week of anti-submarine training exercises.[1] Tabard was at periscope depth when Queenborough passed above her, damaging the submarine's fin and the frigate's keel and port propellor.[1] Both vessels were able to safely return to Sydney, where they docked at naval base HMAS Kuttabul for repairs.[1]
Tabard was permanently moored as a static training submarine at the HMS Dolphin shore-establishment from 1969 until 1974, when she was replaced by HMS Alliance.
Tabard was the last T class boat in service with Royal Navy, albeit non-operationally, finally being sold to be broken up for scrap on 2 January 1974 and scrapped on 14 March 1974.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Trevor Weaver (1994). Q class Destroyers and Frigates of the Royal Australian Navy, pg 194
- ^ HMS Tabard, Uboat.net
- Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Weaver, Trevor (1994). Q class Destroyers and Frigates of the Royal Australian Navy. Garden Island, NSW: Naval History Society of Australia. ISBN 0-9587456-3-3.
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