HMS Telemachus (P321)
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 HMS Telemachus |
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| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow |
| Laid down: | 25 August 1942 |
| Launched: | 19 June 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 25 October 1943 |
| Fate: | Scrapped August 1961 |
| Badge: |  |
| 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 Telemachus was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P321 by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and launched on 19 June 1943.
[edit] Service
Telemachus served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, arriving there to serve with the Eastern Fleet in July 1944 Her one notable action was her sinking of the Japanese submarine I-166.
She survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, finally being scrapped at Charlestown on 28 August 1961.[1]
[edit] See also
- William King, commanding officer of HMS Telemachus from 21 July, 1943 to August 1945.
[edit] References
- ^ HMS Telemachus, 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.
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