HMS Truncheon (P353)
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 HMS Truncheon |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Truncheon |
| Builder: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 5 November 1942 |
| Launched: | 22 February 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 25 May 1945 |
| Fate: | sold to Israeli Navy as INS Dolphin in 1968 |
| Career |  |
| Name: | INS Dolphin |
| Commissioned: | 1968 |
| Fate: | scrapped 1977 |
| 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 Truncheon (pennant number P353) was a group three T Class submarine of the Royal Navy which entered service in the last few months of World War II. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named Truncheon. She was sold to Israel in 1967 and commissioned into the Israeli Sea Corps in 1968 as INS Dolphin[1]
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[edit] Career
[edit] As HMS Truncheon
At the end of the war, all surviving Group 1 and Group 2 boats were scrapped, but the group 3 boats (which were of welded rather than riveted construction) were retained and fitted with snort masts.
Truncheon was sold to the Israeli Navy in 1967, and renamed Dolphin.
[edit] As INS Dolphin
The submarine was purchased by Israel, along with two of her T-class sisters, in 1965, HMS Turpin and HMS Totem. She was commissioned into the Israeli Sea Corps in 1967.
She was eventually scrapped in 1977. By the time of her decommissioning, she was the only T class submarine in service in the world.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ HMS Truncheon, 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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