HMS Turpin (P354)
 HMS Turpin | |
| 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: |
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| 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 14 ft 7 in (4.45 m) aft |
| Propulsion: | Two shafts Twin diesel engines 2,500 hp (1.86 MW) each |
| Speed: | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h) surfaced 9 knots (20 km/h) submerged |
| 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 2 external forward-facing torpedo tubes |
HMS Turpin (pennant number P354) was one a group three T-class submarines 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]
Career
As HMS Turpin
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.
As INS Leviathan
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. A Dolphin class submarine named Leviathan was commissioned 2000 to the Israeli Navy.
Footnotes
- ↑ HMS Turpin, Uboat.net
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
- Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8. OCLC 53783010.
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