HMS Truant
Service
- 31 October 1939 — December 19462,136 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Truant
- Pennant / hull number
- N68
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
- Laid down
- 24 March 1938
- Launched
- 5 May 1939
- Commissioned
- 31 October 1939
- Fate
- Sold for breaking up, wrecked under tow December 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,090 long tons (1,107 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,575 long tons (1,600 t)
- Length
- 83.82 m (275 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 4.97 m (16.3 ft)
- Speed
- 15.3 knots (28.2 km/h, 17.5 mph)
- Range
- 4,500 nmi (8,334 km)
- Complement
- 59
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Truant was a T-class submarine in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number N68. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow on 24 March 1938. She entered service on 31 October 1939, having been launched on 5 May 1939.
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 1,090 long tons surfaced and 1,575 long tons submerged. She measured 83.8 m (275 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 15.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 59. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 2,136 days of the Second World War.
She was wrecked in December 1946.
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 torpedo tubes
- 4 × external forward-facing torpedo tubes
- 6 × reload torpedoes
- 1 × 4 inch deck gun
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 Truant on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22602 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons