HMS Tireless (P327)
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 HMS Tireless |
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| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 1941 |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 30 October 1941 |
| Launched: | 19 March 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 18 April 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | August 1963 |
| Fate: | scrapped, 1968 |
| 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 |
| 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 Tireless (P 327), a Taciturn- or T-class submarine, was the first ship of the Royal Navy to bear that name. She was authorized under the 1941 War Emergency Program and her keel was laid down on 30 October 1941 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She was launched on 19 March 1943 and was completed on 18 April 1945.
Commissioned towards the end of the Second World War, she had a relatively quiet career and survived it. She remained in service until August 1963 when she was put on the sale list. She was broken up during 1968.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ HMS Tireless, 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.
- Royal Navy (Crown Copyright) Web site
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