HMS Trump
Service
- as Trump8 July 1944 — August 1971421 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Trump
- Pennant / hull number
- P333
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
- Laid down
- 31 December 1942
- Launched
- 25 March 1944
- Commissioned
- 8 July 1944
- Fate
- Scrapped at Newport, Wales, August 1971 (1971)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,327 long tons (1,348 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,571 long tons (1,596 t)
- Length
- 83.21 m (273 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
- 63
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Trump was a submarine of the T-class submarine (Group III) of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P333. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow on 31 December 1942. She entered service on 8 July 1944, having been launched on 25 March 1944.
52 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Grampus-class submarine and was succeeded by the U class.
The boat displaced 1,327 long tons surfaced and 1,571 long tons submerged. She measured 83.2 m (273 ft) long with a beam of 7.6 m (25 ft). Her designed speed was 15.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 63. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 421 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in August 1971.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 diesel engines 2500 hp each
- 2 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
- QF 4 in 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 Trump on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3478 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons