| Built By: | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Build Group: | T 3 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in March 1970 at Cairn Ryan. |
This happened onboard the HMS Token tied up to the jetty at HMS Dolphin Submarine Base, we were day running with a destroyer who was training some
| 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: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | T 2 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped in March 1947 at Briton Ferry. | |
An account of the development and use of the human torpedoes, semi-submersible and midget submarines mainly in WW2 but including some of the developments that took place in 1918, with many half tone photo ills. and brief accounts of many of the actions involving these craft
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| 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: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | T 2 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped in March 1947 at Briton Ferry. | |
An account of the development and use of the human torpedoes, semi-submersible and midget submarines mainly in WW2 but including some of the developments that took place in 1918, with many half tone photo ills. and brief accounts of many of the actions involving these craft
13 pages added or updated in the last Array month
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Comments
Comment by: Legs D. on July 23rd, 2026
Token was my very first boat from 1963 to 1965. During that period, for about 6 months, we were refitted with a 4inch gun. For some reason I was chosen to be a sight setter (I was a baby AB RP3). This became a 'Boy's Own' adventure for me. The 'sight setter' happened to be fourth in the queue to get up into the gun tower and first up with a shell, so it was great fun firing at tug-drawn targets off of Portland.
The main point of this dit finds Token back alongside Dolphin. For some reason the crew had a make and mend with us on duty watch onboard. It was decided (illegally) to show a movie that afternoon in the fore-ends as normal. Up goes the greyish sheet as the screen. Out comes the dear old projector. So there we are, enjoying the movie, about a dozen of us, most of us smoking. The torpedo hatch doors open, and then the Fleet Gunnery Officer from Whaley enters. For some reason he was extremely angry with us all, not for showing the movie. I believe that he thought that the torpedo stowage compartment with at least six Mk8s and about 100 shells lying in the trench below us should have been treated as a magazine space. It was the only time in my naval career that I have seen a naval officer so angry that he seemed to hover and turn a remarkable puce colour. It really did mess up our illegal movie afternoon!
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