Royal Navy — Submarine
HMS Teredo
Service
- as HMS Teredo13 April 1946 — June 1965
British T class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Teredo
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
- Laid down
- 17 April 1944
- Launched
- 27 April 1945
- Commissioned
- 13 April 1946
- Fate
- Scrapped June 1965 (1965)
- 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)
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Teredo was a British T class submarine of the Royal Navy. Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow laid her keel on 17 April 1944. Launched on 27 April 1945, she entered service on 13 April 1946.
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. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was broken up for scrap in June 1965.
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 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 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 Teredo on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 19820 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons