HMS Tarn (P336)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Tarn |
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow |
| Laid down: | 12 June 1943 |
| Launched: | 29 November 1944 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy |
| Career |  |
| Name: | HNLMS Tijgerhaai |
| Commissioned: | 28 March 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 November 1964 |
| Fate: | sold for scrapping 5 November 1965 |
| General characteristics | |
| 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 Tarn (P326) was a Second World War British T class submarine, built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow. She would have been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Tarn.
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[edit] Career
[edit] As HMS Tarn
The submarine was laid down on the 12th of June 1943, and launched on 29 November 1944. She was not commissioned into the Royal Navy , instead being transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy and commissioned into service on 28 March 1945. She was renamed Tijgerhaai.[1]
[edit] As HNLMS Tijgerhaai
Tijgerhaai was commissioned as the war was drawing to a close and spent much of 1945 undergoing trials.[2] She had a relatively quiet career, of note being the fact that she was tied up inboard of HMS Sidon when Sidon suffered a torpedo malfunction and sank. On 19 October 1955, she ran aground in Weymouth Bay, and had to be pulled off by tugs. She was decommissioned on 11 December 1964 and was sold to be broken up for scrap on 5 November 1965.[3]
[edit] References
- 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.
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