HMS Tireless (P327)
Service
- as Tireless18 April 1945 — August 1963137 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Tireless
- Pennant / hull number
- P327
- Builder
- Portsmouth Dockyard
- Ordered
- 1941
- Laid down
- 30 October 1941
- Launched
- 19 March 1943
- Commissioned
- 18 April 1945
- Decommissioned
- August 1963
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1968 (1968)
- 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 Tireless was a T-class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P327. Her keel was laid at Portsmouth Dockyard on 30 October 1941. Launched on 19 March 1943, she entered service on 18 April 1945.
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 137 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in August 1963.
She was broken up for scrap in 1968.
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 diesel engines 2500 hp each
- Twin electric motors 1450 hp each
- Armament
- 6 internal forward-facing 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 2 external forward-facing torpedo tubes
- 2 external amidships rear-facing torpedo tubes
- 1 external rear-facing torpedo tubes
- 6 reload torpedoes
- QF 4 inch (100 mm) deck 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 Tally-Ho
- 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Tireless (P327) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Admiralty Official Collection — Imperial War Museum — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons