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Taciturn (P 334)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: T 3
Fate: Scrapped 8th August 1971 at Briton Ferry.

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Taciturn 1946
Taciturn 1946
Taciturn 1960
Taciturn 1960
Taciturn
Taciturn
Commanders
1944: Commander  Ronald Hugh Dewhurst  DSO
1944: Lieutenant Commander  Edward Talbot Stanley  DSO DSC
1945: Lieutenant  William Hedley Kett (RNR)  DSC
1953: Lieutenant Commander  Paul Murray-Jones  MID

One of the 'T' class chosen for streamlining and improved performance

Events

09-03-1943 Laid Down
07-06-1944 Launched
08-10-1944 Completed
15-06-1945 HMS Taciturn sinks a Japanese air warning picket hulk and the Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 105 with gunfire in the Madoera Strait to the north of Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies.
17-06-1945 HMS Taciturn sinks a Japanese sailing vessel north of Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies.
01-08-1945 HMS Thorough and HMS Taciturn attack Japanese shipping and shore targets off northern Bali. Taciturn sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire.
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