HMS Tuna (N94)
Service
- as HMS Tuna1 August 1940 — 19 December 19451,858 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Tuna
- Pennant / hull number
- N94
- Builder
- Scotts, Greenock
- Ordered
- 9 December 1937
- Laid down
- 13 June 1938
- Launched
- 10 May 1940
- Commissioned
- 1 August 1940
- Fate
- Sold to broken up, 19 December 1945
Scrapped in June 1946 (1945) - Status
- Scrapped
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 Tuna was a British T class submarine in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number N94. Her keel was laid at Scotts, Greenock on 13 June 1938. She entered service on 1 August 1940, having been launched on 10 May 1940.
52 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Grampus-class submarine and was succeeded by the U class.
The boat displaced 1,090 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 1,858 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 19 December 1945.
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 2,500 hp (1.86 MW) each
- Twin electric motors 1,450 hp (1.08 MW) each
- Armament
- Six internal forward-facing 21 inch torpedo tubes
- Four external forward-facing torpedo tubes
- Six reload torpedoes
- 1 x 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 Tuna (N94) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Zimmerman, E A (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 18930 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons