HMS Turbulent |
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| Career (United Kingdom) | |
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| Ordered: | 28 July 1978 |
| Laid down: | 8 May 1980 |
| Launched: | 1 December 1982 |
| Commissioned: | 28 April 1984 |
| Homeport: | HMNB Devonport, Plymouth |
| Identification: | Pennant number: S87 |
| Fate: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| Badge: | |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | Trafalgar-class submarine |
| Displacement: | Surfaced: 4,740 tons Dived: 5,208 tons |
| Length: | 280.1 ft (85.4 m) |
| Beam: | 32.1 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draught: | 31.2 ft (9.5 m) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | Dived: 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Complement: | 18 officers 112 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
BAE Systems SMCS from 1997 Type 2074 sonar from 1997 |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
SAWCS decoys from 2002 |
| Armament: |
Current weapons: Decommissioned weapons:
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| Service record | |
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| Operations: | Operation Telic, Iraq |
HMS Turbulent is a Trafalgar-class submarine of the Royal Navy built by Vickers Shipbuilding, Barrow-in-Furness.
Turbulent is scheduled to be decommissioned at the end of 2011.[2]
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Turbulent went through her modernisation and first nuclear refuel in 1997. Her home port is HMNB Devonport.[1]
On 16 April 2003 HMS Turbulent was the first Royal Navy vessel to return home from the war against Iraq. She arrived in Plymouth flying the Jolly Roger after launching thirty Tomahawk cruise missiles.[3]
Turbulent left Devonport in February 2011 for a ten month deployment, her final before decommissioning. The deployment saw her operating in the Gulf of Sidra relieving HMS Triumph as part of the British contribution to the Libya intervention. She was then herself relieved by Triumph, before heading through the Suez Canal in June to take up patrol in the Indian Ocean. The boat called into the port of Fujairah, where she rendezvoused with the support ship RFA Diligence.[4]
The current and final captain of the submarine is Commander Ryan Ramsey MA.[5]
Turbulent was featured in a 2011 episode of Heston Blumenthal's Heston's Mission Impossible. Its food menu was changed from typical, home-cooked "heavy" food to a lighter, healthier menu employing the sous-vide method which also provides benefits in space-saving and freshness. The episode was partially filmed at the shore establishment HMS Raleigh.[6]
The submarine was the primary feature of a documentary called 'Submarine Mission' on Channel 5 during her 2011 deployment.[4]
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