HMS Taciturn
Service
- as HMS Taciturn8 October 1944 — August 1971329 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Taciturn
- Pennant / hull number
- P334
- Builder
- Vickers Armstrongs, Barrow
- Laid down
- 9 March 1943
- Launched
- 7 June 1944
- Commissioned
- 8 October 1944
- Fate
- Scrapped August 1971 (1971)
- 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 Taciturn was a British T class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P334. Vickers Armstrongs, Barrow laid her keel on 9 March 1943. Launched on 7 June 1944, she entered service on 8 October 1944.
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 329 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
- Two shafts
- Twin diesel engines 2,500 hp (1.86 MW) each
- Twin electric motors 1,450 hp (1.08 MW) 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 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
- HMS Thrasher (N37)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Taciturn on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 4134 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons