HMS Tantivy (P319)

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HMS Tantivy
Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Builder: Vickers Armstrong, Barrow
John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Laid down: 4 July 1942
Launched: 6 April 1943
Commissioned: 25 July 1943
Fate: sunk as target 1951
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

14 ft 7 in (4.4 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
Test depth: 300 ft (91 m) max
Complement: 61
Armament:

6 internal forward facing torpedo tubes
2 external forward facing torpedo tubes
2 external amidships rear facing torpedo tubes
1 external rear facing torpedo tubes
6 reload torpedoes
4 inch (100 mm) deck gun

3 anti aircraft machine guns

HMS Tantivy was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P319 by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and John Brown & Company, Clydebank, and launched on 6 April 1943. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Tantivy.

[edit] Service

Tantivy served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank the a Siamese sailing vessel, the Japanese merchant cargo ship Shiretoko Maru, the Japanese Communications Vessel No. 137, the Japanese barge No. 136 and the Japanese motor sailing vessel Tachibana Maru No.47, a Japanese tug, two Japanese coasters, a Japanese sailing vessel, the small Japanese vessels Chokyu Maru No.2, Takasago Maru No.3, and Otori Maru, as well as twelve small vessels that are unidentified. She also laid numerous mines.

She survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, finally being sunk as an anti-submarine target in the Cromarty Firth in 1951.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ HMS Tantivy, Uboot.net