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HMS Truculent (P315)
T-class submarine of the Royal Navy, in service from 1942 to 1950 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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HMS Truculent was a British submarine of the third group of the T-class. She was built as P315 by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and launched on 12 September 1942. She sank nine enemy vessels.
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Name | HMS Truculent |
Builder | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow |
Laid down | 4 December 1941 |
Launched | 12 September 1942 |
Commissioned | 31 December 1942 |
Identification | Pennant number P315 |
Fate | Accidentally sunk 12 January 1950 |
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Class and type | T-class submarine |
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Length | 276 ft 6 in (84.28 m) |
Beam | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
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Range | 4,500 nmi (5,200 mi; 8,300 km) at 11 kn (13 mph; 20 km/h) (surfaced) |
Test depth | 300 ft (91 m) max |
Complement | 61 |
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The submarine was funded by donations from the town of Glossop in Derbyshire, whose population raised £175,000 in 1942-3 to fund warships.[1]
Her bow struck a Swedish oil tanker outside the mouth of the Medway in January 1950. Held primarily responsible, Truculent began to sink – 64 men were lost as she was ferrying workers as well as carrying her crew – and her wreck was towed to the destined nearby dockyard then sold for scrap.
Regional navigation rules thereafter mandated a Truculent Light – a panoramic white light on the bow of submarines moving under their own power.