| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | T 2 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in July 1947 at Milford Haven. |
| 1941: | Lieutenant Commander | William Donald Aelian King | DSO |
| 1942: | Lieutenant Commander | Edward Francis Balston | DSO |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Alexander Walcot Stewart | |
| 1943: | Lieutenant Commander | John Robert Garstin Harvey | |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | John Paton Fyfe | |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Michael Frederic Roberts Ainslie | DSO DSC MID |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Edward Talbot Stanley | DSO DSC |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Laurence Edward Herrick | DSC MID |
| 1945: | Lieutenant | William St. George Anderson | DSC |
| 1945: | Lieutenant | Hugh Seaburne May |
| 15-03-1940 | Laid Down |
| 14-03-1941 | Launched |
| 30-07-1941 | Completed |
| 04-12-1941 | HMS Trusty makes a torpedo attack on Italian torpedo boat Orsa west of Zakynthos island, Greece. All torpedoes missed. |
| 04-06-1942 | HMS Trusty torpedoes and sinks the Japanese merchant cargo ship Toyohashi Maru in Strait of Malacca. |
| 18-11-1942 | HMS Trusty torpedoes and damages the Japanese troop transport Columbia Maru near Penang, Malaya. |
| Length overall | 275 ft |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 14 ft 3 inch |
| Displacement | 1327 tons (surface) |
| 1575 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 300 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15.25 knots (design) |
| Surface 15.25 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 8.75 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 7500 miles at 15.25 knots (design) |
| (ii) Surface: 8000 miles at 10 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 80 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 80 miles at 4 knots (service) | |
| Armament | (i) 8 x 21 inch bow tubes (2 external) |
| 2 x 21 inch amidship tubes | |
| (16 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| (ii) 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| Complement | 56 |
| Notes | (i) As an alternative load, Group 1 submarines could carry 18 mines. |
| (ii) These were later replaced by, or supplemented by one 20mm Oerlikon cannon. |
| Class: | 1955 - 1970: Explorer Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Explorer |
| Fate: | |
| Decommissioned March 5, 1962 Broken Up 1965 | |
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| Length overall | 275 ft |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 14 ft 3 inch |
| Displacement | 1327 tons (surface) |
| 1575 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 300 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15.25 knots (design) |
| Surface 15.25 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 8.75 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 7500 miles at 15.25 knots (design) |
| (ii) Surface: 8000 miles at 10 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 80 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 80 miles at 4 knots (service) | |
| Armament | (i) 8 x 21 inch bow tubes (2 external) |
| 2 x 21 inch amidship tubes | |
| (16 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| (ii) 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| Complement | 56 |
| Notes | (i) As an alternative load, Group 1 submarines could carry 18 mines. |
| (ii) These were later replaced by, or supplemented by one 20mm Oerlikon cannon. |
| Class: | 1955 - 1970: Explorer Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Explorer |
| Fate: | |
| Decommissioned March 5, 1962 Broken Up 1965 | |
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