| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | T 3 |
| Fate: | Scrapped on 17th July 1959 at Troon. |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Denis John Beckley | DSO MID |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Thomas Graeme Ridgeway | |
| 1945: | Lieutenant | Thomas Graeme Ridgeway |
| 28-12-1941 | Laid Down |
| 15-02-1943 | Completed |
| 27-01-1944 | The Japanese light cruiser Kitakami was torpedoed and damaged by two torpedoes from HMS Templar in the Malacca Strait south west off Penang. |
| 29-05-1944 | HMS Templar torpedoes and sinks the Japanese merchant cargo ship Tyokai Maru in Strait of Malacca. |
| 04-06-1944 | HMS Templar lays mines in the Strait of Malacca. |
| 16-07-1944 | HMS Templar misses the German submarine U-1062 with torpedoes in the Malacca Strait. |
| 17-07-1959 | Scrapped at Troon. |
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 12th Jun, 1944 | |
| Symbology | The site between Fleet Street and the Thames, formerly used by students and practitioners of law, is known as The Temple and was occupied by the Knights Templar circa 1160-1312. Charges in the badge are from the Inns of Court, Middle Temple, Shield and Inner Temple, Pegasus. | |
| Design Notes | A gold demi-Pegasus erased wings addorsed, holding between the forelegs a white escutcheon charged with a red cross on a field of blue. | |
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| Unofficial | ||
| Motto | Arte vel marte (By skill or by valour). | |
| Symbology | The Knights Templar, officially known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, were a wealthy and powerful Catholic military order founded in 1119 during the Crusades. Members wore distinctive white mantles featuring a red cross and combined strict monastic discipline with elite military capabilities. | |
| Design Notes | A sword erect, pointed in pale, proper. The sword is charged upon its blade with a cross, which is the classic symbol of the Knights Templar. Colours unknown. | |
| Length overall | 273 ft 6 inch |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 14 ft 3 inch |
| Displacement | 1422 tons (surface) |
| 1571 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | (i) 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 | 8 x 21 inch bow tubes (2 external) |
| 2 x 21 inch amidship tubes | |
| (17 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| 1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| Complement | (peacetime) 5 Officers and 51 Ratings |
| (wartime) 6 Officers and 56 Ratings | |
| Notes | (i) This was increased to 350 feet in the all-welded boats. |
| (ii) T Class submarines serving in the Far East were modified to carry extra fuel, which increased endurance to 11 000 miles at 10 knots. |
| Class: | 1929 - 1946: Rainbow Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | R2 |
| Fate: | |
| HMS Regent is assumed to have been lost in the Adriatic Sea off Bari between the 18th and 25th April 1943. The submarine is thought to have strayed into a minefield. The entire crew of sixty-three Officers and Ratings were lost. The first of four bodies washed up near Brindisi on 1st May 1943 and was the body of an ERA dressed in overalls and wearing a DSEA escape kit. Another was washed up at Santa Andrea di Missipezza on 15th May 1943 also wearing a DSEA kit. On 16th May either an Officer or a Petty Officer was washed up at Torre Santo Stefano, north of Otranto and, on the same day, another was washed up at Castro Marina. | |
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 12th Jun, 1944 | |
| Symbology | The site between Fleet Street and the Thames, formerly used by students and practitioners of law, is known as The Temple and was occupied by the Knights Templar circa 1160-1312. Charges in the badge are from the Inns of Court, Middle Temple, Shield and Inner Temple, Pegasus. | |
| Design Notes | A gold demi-Pegasus erased wings addorsed, holding between the forelegs a white escutcheon charged with a red cross on a field of blue. | |
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| Unofficial | ||
| Motto | Arte vel marte (By skill or by valour). | |
| Symbology | The Knights Templar, officially known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, were a wealthy and powerful Catholic military order founded in 1119 during the Crusades. Members wore distinctive white mantles featuring a red cross and combined strict monastic discipline with elite military capabilities. | |
| Design Notes | A sword erect, pointed in pale, proper. The sword is charged upon its blade with a cross, which is the classic symbol of the Knights Templar. Colours unknown. | |
| Length overall | 273 ft 6 inch |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 inch |
| Depth | 14 ft 3 inch |
| Displacement | 1422 tons (surface) |
| 1571 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | (i) 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 | 8 x 21 inch bow tubes (2 external) |
| 2 x 21 inch amidship tubes | |
| (17 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| 1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| Complement | (peacetime) 5 Officers and 51 Ratings |
| (wartime) 6 Officers and 56 Ratings | |
| Notes | (i) This was increased to 350 feet in the all-welded boats. |
| (ii) T Class submarines serving in the Far East were modified to carry extra fuel, which increased endurance to 11 000 miles at 10 knots. |
| Class: | 1929 - 1946: Rainbow Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | R2 |
| Fate: | |
| HMS Regent is assumed to have been lost in the Adriatic Sea off Bari between the 18th and 25th April 1943. The submarine is thought to have strayed into a minefield. The entire crew of sixty-three Officers and Ratings were lost. The first of four bodies washed up near Brindisi on 1st May 1943 and was the body of an ERA dressed in overalls and wearing a DSEA escape kit. Another was washed up at Santa Andrea di Missipezza on 15th May 1943 also wearing a DSEA kit. On 16th May either an Officer or a Petty Officer was washed up at Torre Santo Stefano, north of Otranto and, on the same day, another was washed up at Castro Marina. | |
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