HMS Turpin |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Turpin |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 24 May 1943 |
| Launched: | 5 August 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 18 December 1944 |
| Fate: | sold to Israeli Navy as INS Leviathan in 1965 |
| Badge: | |
| Career | |
| Name: | INS Leviathan |
| Commissioned: | 1967 |
| Fate: | scrapped 1978 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,290 tons surfaced 1,560 tons submerged |
| Length: | 276 ft 6 in (84.28 m) |
| Beam: | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
| Draught: |
12 ft 9 in (3.89 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 Turpin (pennant number P354) 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 Turpin. She was sold to Israel in 1965 and commissioned into the Israeli Sea Corps in 1967 as INS Leviathan.[1]
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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.
Turpin was sold to the Israeli Navy in 1965, and renamed Leviathan, after a biblical sea monster.
The submarine was purchased by Israel, along with two of her T-class sisters, in 1965, HMS Truncheon and HMS Totem. She was commissioned into the Israeli Sea Corps in 1967.
She was eventually scrapped in 1978.
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