Royal Navy — Submarine
P328
HMS Token
Service
- as Token15 December 1945 — 1970
British T-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Token
- Pennant / hull number
- P328
- Builder
- Portsmouth Dockyard
- Laid down
- 6 November 1941
- Launched
- 19 March 1943
- Commissioned
- 15 December 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped 1970 (1970)
- 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 Token was a British T-class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P328. Portsmouth Dockyard laid her keel on 6 November 1941. She entered service on 15 December 1945, having been launched on 19 March 1943.
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. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was broken up for scrap in 1970.
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 (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- two external forward-facing torpedo tubes
- two external amidships rear-facing torpedo tubes
- one external rear-facing torpedo tubes
- six reload torpedoes
- QF 4 inch (100 mm) 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 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 Token on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3763 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons