Thrasher 1945
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| War Emergency Programme | |||||||
| Tempest | N86 | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead | 1.1940 | 10.6.1941 | 12/1941 | sunk 13.2.1942 | |
| Thorn | N11 | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead | 1.1940 | 18.3.1941 | 8/1941 | sunk 6.8.1942 | |
| Thrasher | N37 | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead | 11.1939 | 28.11.1940 | 5/1941 | BU 3.1947 | |
| Traveller | N48 | Scotts, Greenock | 1.1940 | 27.8.1941 | 4/1942 | sunk 8.12.1942 | |
| Trooper | N91 | Scotts, Greenock | 51940 | 5.3.1942 | 8/1942 | sunk 10.10.1943 | |
| Trusty | N45 | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 3.1940 | 14.3.1941 | 7/1941 | BU 1.1947 | |
| Turbulent | N98 | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 3.1940 | 12.5.1941 | 12/1941 | sunk 14.3.1943 | |
| 1940 Programme | |||||||
| P311 (ex-Tutankhamen) | P91 - P311 | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 4.1941 | 5.3.1942 | 8/1942 | sunk 31.12.1942 | |
| P314, 1.1943- Tactician | P94 - P314, 1948- S14 | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 11.1941 | 29.7.1942 | 11.1942 | BU 12.1963 | |
| Tally-Ho | P317, 1948- S87 | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 3.1942 | 23.12.1942 | 4.1943 | BU 2.1967 | |
| Tantalus | P318, 1948- S... | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 6.1942 | 24.2.1943 | 6.1943 | BU 11.1950 | |
| Tantivy | P319, 1948- S... | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 7.1942 | 6.4.1943 | 7.1943 | sunk as target 1951 | |
| P313, 1.1943- Taurus | P313, 1948- S39 | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 9.1941 | 27.6.1942 | 11.1942 | to Netherlands 6.1948 - 6.1953 (Dolfijn), BU 4.1960 | |
| Templar | P316, 1948- S... | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 12.1941 | 26.10.1942 | 2.1943 | sunk as target 1954 | |
| P312, 1.1943- Trespasser | P312, 1948- S12 | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 9.1941 | 29.5.1942 | 9.1942 | BU 9.1961 | |
| P315, 1.1943- Truculent | P315, 1948- S... | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 12.1941 | 12.9.1942 | 12.1942 | collision 12.1.1950 | |
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Displacement standard, t |
1090 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1327 / 1575 Tempest, Thorn, Thrasher, Traveller, Trooper, Trusty, Turbulent, P311: 1327 / 1567 |
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Length, m |
83.8 Tempest, Thorn, Thrasher, Traveller, Trooper, Trusty, Turbulent, P311: 83.3 |
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Breadth, m |
8.10 |
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Draught, m |
4.44 - 4.52 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 Vickers diesels / 2 electric motors Traveller, Trooper: 2 Admiralty diesels / 2 electric motors Tempest, Thorn, Thrasher: 2 Sulzer diesels / 2 electric motors |
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Power, h. p. |
2500 / 1450 |
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Max speed, kn |
15.25 / 9 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil 129 Tempest, Thorn, Thrasher, Traveller, Trooper, Trusty, Turbulent, P311: diesel oil 132 Tactician, Tally Ho, Tantalus, Tantivy, Taurus: diesel oil up to 215 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
8000(10) / |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk XII, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 3 x 1 - 12.7/62, 11 - 533 TT (6 bow, 2 ext bow, 3 ext stern, 17 torpedoes or 18 M2 mines) |
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Sensors |
completed 1941 - 1942: type 286PW radar, type 129, type 138 sonars completed 1942 - 1943: type 291W radar, type 129, type 138 sonars |
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Complement |
61 |
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Diving depth operational, m |
95 |
Project history: Repetition of pre-war design of "Ò" class, differed by additional stern TTs out of a pressure hull and 20mm AA MG. Bulkheads were welded. Submarines of 1940 Programme (except lead Ð311) had two bow outer TT displaced aft on 2.1m that has allowed to moderate their fin size and to moderate a hull length a little. It removed a lack revealed during service of early "Ò" class submarines when on cruising depth the submarine could be unmasked by the small surf formed at a flow by water of a massive bow TT bulb.
5 boats of 1940 Programme had fuel stowage increased to 215t at the expense of usage of ballast tanks to stow diesel oil which originally were riveted, later welded. Surface endurance with full surface displacement (1442t) had as a result increased to 11000(10)nm.
Modernizations: 1942, Trooper, P311: + 3 Chariot human torpedoes
1944 - 1945, Trusty, Tally Ho, Templar: - 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk XII; + 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk XXII
1/1946, Thrasher, Tactician, Tantalus, Tantivy, Taurus, Trespasser, Truculent: 1 x 1 - 102/40 S Mk I, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk IIA S/M, 11 - 533 TT, type 286PW or type 291W radar, type 129, type 138 sonars
1/1946, Trusty, Tally-Ho, Templar: 1 x 1 - 102/40 S Mk I, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk IIA S/M, 11 - 533 TT, type 286PW or type 291W radar, type 129, type 138 sonars
early 1950s, all survived: - 1 x 1 - 20/70
Naval service: Tempest was sunk 13.2.1942 by DCs of Italian torpedo boat Circe at Taranto. Thorn was sunk 6.8.1942 by DCs of Italian torpedo boat Pegaso in Mediterranean Sea. Traveller was lost (possibly, on a mine at Taranto) 8.12.1942. Trooper was sunk by a mine 10.10.1943 off Leros island. Turbulent was lost on a mine 14.3.1943 off Sardinia. Ð311 was lost 31.12.1942 on a mine. Truculent collided with Swedish tanker Divina, was salvaged two months later and broken up.
Truculent 1945
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