HMS Tribune (N76)
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 HMS Tribune |
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| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Scotts, Greenock |
| Laid down: | 3 March 1937 |
| Launched: | 8 December 1938 |
| Commissioned: | 17 October 1939 |
| Fate: | Sold to be broken up for scrap July 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | British T class submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,090 tons surfaced 1,575 tons submerged |
| Length: | 275 ft (84 m) |
| Beam: | 26 ft 6 in (8.1 m) |
| Draught: |
12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) forward |
| Propulsion: |
Two shafts |
| Speed: |
15.25 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: | 59 |
| Armament: |
6 internal forward facing torpedo tubes |
HMS Tribune was a British T class submarine built by Scotts, Greenock. She was laid down on 3 March 1937 and was commissioned on 17 October 1939. HMS Tribune was part of the first group of T class submarines.
[edit] Career
Tribune started the war with operations in the North Sea and off the Scandinavian coast. She had a number of fruitless patrols, attacking an unidentified German submarine and merchant, the U-56, the German tanker Karibisches Meer and the German merchant Birkenfels, all without success.
She had marginally better luck in the Mediterranean, damaging the French merchant Dalny, which was beached to prevent her from sinking, and then damaging the now beached Dalny the next day. She also torpedoed and damaged the German tanker Präsident Herrenschmidt, and attacked the Italian merchant Benevento, but failed to hit her.[1]
HMS Tribune survived the war, and was sold for scrap in July 1947, and was broken up in November, by Ward, of Milford Haven.
[edit] References
- ^ HMS Tribune, 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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