Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Submarine N45

HMS Trusty (N45)

British T class submarine

HMS Trusty (N45)
Zimmerman, E A (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 23128 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — N45 IWM caption : HMSM TRUSTY (left) passing HMSM SIBYL as the latter nears port at Dundee after one of the war's longest commisions lasting twenty months. She was commanded by Lieutenant E J D Turner, DSO, DSC, RN.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS Trusty30 July 1941 — January 19471,497 days of the war
British T class submarine Particulars
Name
HMS Trusty
Pennant / hull number
N45
Builder
Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
Laid down
15 March 1940
Launched
14 March 1941
Commissioned
30 July 1941
Fate
Sold for breaking up January 1947 (1947)
Status
Unknown

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 Trusty was a British T class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number N45. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow on 15 March 1940. Launched on 14 March 1941, she entered service on 30 July 1941.

She was one of 52 ships of her class. 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 1,497 days of the Second World War.

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
  • 6 internal forward-facing 21 in torpedo tubes
  • 2 external forward-facing torpedo tubes
  • 3 external backward-facing torpedo tubes
  • 6 reload torpedoes
  • 1 x 4 inch deck gun
  • 3 anti-aircraft machine guns

Sister ships

27 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Trusty (N45) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Zimmerman, E A (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 23128 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons