Royal Navy — Submarine
HMS Truncheon
Service
- as HMS Truncheon25 May 1945 — 1968100 days of the war
- as INS Dolphin1968 — 1977
HMS Truncheon
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Truncheon
- Builder
- Devonport Dockyard
- Laid down
- 5 November 1942
- Launched
- 22 February 1944
- Commissioned
- 25 May 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped 1977 (1977)
- 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 Truncheon was a submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Devonport Dockyard on 5 November 1942. Launched on 22 February 1944, she entered service on 25 May 1945.
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 served with the Royal Navy as HMS Truncheon until 1968. She was in commission for 100 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1977.
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
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Truncheon on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 4123 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons