Royal Navy — Submarine
P325
HMS Thule
Service
- as HMS Thule13 May 1944 — September 1962477 days of the war
T-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Thule
- Pennant / hull number
- P325
- Builder
- Devonport Dockyard
- Laid down
- 20 September 1941
- Launched
- 22 October 1942
- Commissioned
- 13 May 1944
- Fate
- Scrapped in September 1962 (1962)
- 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
HMS Thule was a T-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P325. Devonport Dockyard laid her keel on 20 September 1941. Launched on 22 October 1942, she entered service on 13 May 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 1,290 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.
She was in commission for 477 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in September 1962.
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 2500 hp each
- Twin electric motors 1450 hp 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 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 Thule on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Coote, R G G (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 24334 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons