Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Submarine N98

HMS Turbulent (N98)

British T class submarine

HMS Turbulent (N98)
Claude Henry Parnall — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//453/media-453034/large.jpg This photograph A 14795 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — N98 Hm Submarine Turbulent Has Almost Filled Her Jolly Roger. 12 To 14 February 1943, Algiers, Turbulent, One of the Most Successful British Submarines in the Present War Has Almost Filled Up the Spaces Left on Her Success Flag With the Symbols of Her Triumphs. the White Bars Denote Ships Sunk, White Stars Successful Gun Actions, and the Scimitars Symbolise "special Operations". Two submarines of T cl

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS Turbulent2 December 1941 — March 1943481 days of the war
British T class submarine Particulars
Name
HMS Turbulent
Pennant / hull number
N98
Builder
Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
Laid down
15 March 1940
Launched
12 May 1941
Commissioned
2 December 1941
Fate
Sunk, March 1943 (1943)
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 Turbulent was a British T class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number N98. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow on 15 March 1940. Launched on 12 May 1941, she entered service on 2 December 1941.

52 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Grampus-class submarine and was succeeded by the U class.

The boat displaced 1,090 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 481 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk in March 1943. 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
  • 6 internal forward-facing 21 in torpedo tubes
  • 2 external forward-facing torpedo tubes
  • 3 external sternward-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 Turbulent (N98) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Claude Henry Parnall — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//453/media-453034/large.jpg This photograph A 14795 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons