HMS Tactician (P314)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 HMS Tactician |
|
| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow |
| Laid down: | 13 November 1941 |
| Launched: | 29 July 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 29 November 1942 |
| Fate: | Scrapped December 1963 |
| 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 Tactician was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P314 by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and launched on 29 July 1942.
[edit] Service
Tactician served in the Mediterranean and the Far East during her wartime career. Whilst operating against the Italians, she sank the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V17 / Pia and the Italian sailing vessel Bice. She also torpedoed and damaged the Italian merchant Rosandra off the coast of Albania. The ship sank the following day.
On being transferred to the Pacific, she continued to harass enemy shipping, sinking a small Japanese vessel and two Siamese sailing vessels before the end of the war.
Tactician survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, finally being scrapped at Newport on 6 December 1963.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ HMS Tactician, Uboot.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.
|
||||||||||||||||||||
