HMS Tally-Ho
Service
- as HMS Tally-Ho12 April 1943 — February 1967874 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Tally-Ho
- Namesake
- Tally-ho
- Builder
- Vickers Armstrong, Barrow
- Laid down
- 25 March 1941
- Launched
- 23 December 1942
- Commissioned
- 12 April 1943
- Fate
- Scrapped February 1967 (1967)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,290 long tons (1,311 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,560 long tons (1,585 t)
- Length
- 84.12 m (276 ft)
- Beam
- 7.62 m (25 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h, 17.8 mph)
- Range
- 4,500 nmi (8,334 km)
- Complement
- 61
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Tally-Ho was a T-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. The ship was named after Tally-ho. Her keel was laid at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow on 25 March 1941. She entered service on 12 April 1943, having been launched on 23 December 1942.
She was one of 52 ships of her class. The class followed the Grampus-class submarine and was succeeded by the U class.
The boat displaced 1,290 long tons surfaced and 1,560 long tons submerged. She measured 84.1 m (276 ft) long with a beam of 7.6 m (25 ft). Her designed speed was 15.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 61. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 874 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in February 1967.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Two shafts
- Twin Davey Paxman diesel engines 2500 hp each
- Twin electric motors 1450 hp each
- Armament
- 6 internal forward-facing 21 in torpedo tubes
- 2 external forward-facing torpedo tubes
- 2 external amidships rear-facing torpedo tubes
- 1 external rear-facing torpedo tubes
- 6 reload torpedoes
- 1 x 4 inch deck gun
- 20 mm Oerlikon anti aircraft gun
- 3 anti aircraft machine guns
Sister ships
- HMS Tabard
- HMS Taciturn
- HMS Tactician (P314)
- HMS Taku (N38)
- HMS Talent (P322)
- HMS Talent (P337)
- HMS Talisman (N78)
- HMS Tantalus
- HMS Tantivy
- HMS Tarn (P336)
- HMS Tarpon (N17)
- HMS Taurus (P339)
- HMS Telemachus (P321)
- HMS Tempest (N86)
- HMS Templar
- HMS Teredo
- HMS Terrapin
- HMS Tetrarch (N77)
- HMS Thermopylae
- HMS Thetis (N25)
- HMS Thistle (N24)
- HMS Thorn (N11)
- HMS Thorough
- HMS Thrasher (N37)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Tally-Ho on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 5713 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons