HMS Traveller (N48)
Service
- as HMS Traveller10 April 1942 — 4 December 1942238 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Traveller
- Pennant / hull number
- N48
- Builder
- Scotts, Greenock
- Laid down
- 17 January 1940
- Launched
- 27 August 1941
- Commissioned
- 10 April 1942
- Fate
- Sunk on 4 December 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,090 long tons (1,107 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,575 long tons (1,600 t)
- Length
- 83.82 m (275 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 4.97 m (16.3 ft)
- Speed
- 15.3 knots (28.2 km/h, 17.5 mph)
- Range
- 4,500 nmi (8,334 km)
- Complement
- 61
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Traveller was a British T class submarine in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number N48. Her keel was laid at Scotts, Greenock on 17 January 1940. She entered service on 10 April 1942, having been launched on 27 August 1941.
Her class ran to 52 ships. The class followed the Grampus-class submarine and was succeeded by the U class.
The boat displaced 1,090 long tons surfaced and 1,575 long tons submerged. She measured 83.8 m (275 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 15.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 61. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 238 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 4 December 1942. The wreck survives.
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
- Three external backward-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 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 Traveller (N48) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3447 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons