HMS Trespasser
Service
- as HMS Trespasser25 September 1942 — September 19611,073 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Trespasser
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
- Laid down
- 8 September 1941
- Launched
- 29 May 1942
- Commissioned
- 25 September 1942
- Fate
- Scrapped in September 1961 (1961)
- 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 Trespasser was a British T class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow on 8 September 1941. Launched on 29 May 1942, she entered service on 25 September 1942.
Her class ran to 52 ships. 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 1,073 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in September 1961.
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
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 Trespasser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3790 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons