HMS Tantalus
Service
- as HMS Tantalus2 June 1943 — November 1950823 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Tantalus
- Pennant / hull number
- P318
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
- Laid down
- 6 June 1942
- Launched
- 24 February 1943
- Commissioned
- 2 June 1943
- Fate
- Scrapped in November 1950 (1950)
- 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 Tantalus was a British T class submarine of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P318. Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow laid her keel on 6 June 1942. She entered service on 2 June 1943, having been launched on 24 February 1943.
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 823 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in November 1950.
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 in torpedo tubes
- two external forward-facing torpedo tubes
- two external amidships rear-facing torpedo tubes
- one external rear-facing torpedo tubes
- six reload torpedoes
- 1 x 4 inch deck gun
- three 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 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 Tantalus on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 7066 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons