| Built By: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Build Group: | T 3 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1968 at Newport. |
| 1944: | Acting Lieutenant Commander | Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford | DSC MID |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Edward Talbot Stanley | DSO DSC |
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| Admiralty Approved | 20th Jan, 1945 | |
| Motto | Esto perpetua. (Be perpetual.) | |
| Symbology | Albatross use ocean winds to glide in wave patterns, traveling up to 500 miles or more a day with almost no physical effort. | |
| Design Notes | An albatross with wings raised and displayed proper, issuing from water depicted as barry wavy of four white and blue on a blue field. | |
| 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. |
Turbulent (S 87) |
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| Class: | 1983 - 2025: Trafalgar Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | SSN 4b |
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Fate: Decommisioned 15-07-2012 at Her Majesty's Naval Base Devonport |
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In the near future a French submarine finds itself in a global crisis when a group of terrorists steal a submarine and simulate a nuclear attack.
Commandant Grandchamp and his expert acoustic analysts must defy their own governments' orders amid high-stakes international tensions and battle to save the world from apocalypse.
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 20th Jan, 1945 | |
| Motto | Esto perpetua. (Be perpetual.) | |
| Symbology | Albatross use ocean winds to glide in wave patterns, traveling up to 500 miles or more a day with almost no physical effort. | |
| Design Notes | An albatross with wings raised and displayed proper, issuing from water depicted as barry wavy of four white and blue on a blue field. | |
| 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. |
Turbulent (S 87) |
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| Class: | 1983 - 2025: Trafalgar Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | SSN 4b |
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Fate: Decommisioned 15-07-2012 at Her Majesty's Naval Base Devonport |
|
In the near future a French submarine finds itself in a global crisis when a group of terrorists steal a submarine and simulate a nuclear attack.
Commandant Grandchamp and his expert acoustic analysts must defy their own governments' orders amid high-stakes international tensions and battle to save the world from apocalypse.
12 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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