| Built By: | Scotts (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | T 3 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up on 2 January 1974. |
| 1946: | Lieutenant | James Newenham Elliott |
So far she has been the only boat of the Royal Navy to bear the name Tabard, after the item of clothing.
One of the last pair of eight T Class submarines cut in half and extended for conversion as a fast battery submarine, an important member of the RN Submarine Fleet in the sixties. Notable for having the conning positon atop of the fin unlike the other conversions where there was a low set cab in front of the fin that was not a success in heavy weather.
InFebruary 1964 she underwent exercises with HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Voyager. When she returned to the UK, she became the static training submarine at the HMS Dolphin shore establishment, until 1974 when she was sold and broken up.
| 06-09-1944 | Laid Down |
| 21-11-1945 | Launched |
| 25-06-1946 | Completed |
| 08-05-1963 | HMS Tabard was involved in a collision with HMAS Queenborough |
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 3rd Nov, 1945 | |
| Motto | My cloak the sea. | |
| Symbology | An emblazoned shortcoat. A submarine name. | |
| Design Notes | A red tabard charged on the breast and sleeves with gold Admiralty anchors on a background barry wavy of ten blue and white. | |
| 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. |
A charismatic submariner whose calmness averted a catastrophe when his vessel suffered an explosion off Gibraltar.
Autumn 1941: U96 departs for enemy flight in La Rochelle, France. In the steel belly of the submarine, 50 men crowd close, among them the young Lieutenant Werner, who came on board as a war correspondent. What begins as a quiet routine for the company soon turns into hell after the first shelling.
Trapped between fire and water, between fear and despair, between life and death, the crew of the U96 experiences up close the destructive cruelty of the beast war. He's going to change them all. If they survive it.
You don't have to say many words about 'Das Boot' anymore: Wolfgang Petersen's dramatic film adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's successful novel was the first true blockbuster in German cinema history. Das Boot made his director an international star and his largely unknown actors into familiar faces. Das Boot was celebrated worldwide and was nominated for the Oscar six times.
Four years later, the six-part TV series was released, which takes an even more detailed and unobstructed look at the crew and their experiences on board the U96. In 1997, the director's cut was released in terms of cut, image and sound. An intensive atmosphere and nerve-scattering tension created a milestone in German film and television history!
Disc 1 The Boat - Director's Cut (Blu-ray)
Disc 2 The Boat - Cinema (Blu-ray)
Disc 3-4 The Boat – TV Series (Blu-ray) Disc 5 Bonus Material (Blu-ray)
Disc 6 Soundtrack (Audio CD)
Disc 7-8 Audiobook (MP3 CD) Bonus Material: Original Soundtrack, Audiobook to the novel, read by Dietmar Baer,
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 3rd Nov, 1945 | |
| Motto | My cloak the sea. | |
| Symbology | An emblazoned shortcoat. A submarine name. | |
| Design Notes | A red tabard charged on the breast and sleeves with gold Admiralty anchors on a background barry wavy of ten blue and white. | |
| 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. |
A charismatic submariner whose calmness averted a catastrophe when his vessel suffered an explosion off Gibraltar.
Autumn 1941: U96 departs for enemy flight in La Rochelle, France. In the steel belly of the submarine, 50 men crowd close, among them the young Lieutenant Werner, who came on board as a war correspondent. What begins as a quiet routine for the company soon turns into hell after the first shelling.
Trapped between fire and water, between fear and despair, between life and death, the crew of the U96 experiences up close the destructive cruelty of the beast war. He's going to change them all. If they survive it.
You don't have to say many words about 'Das Boot' anymore: Wolfgang Petersen's dramatic film adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's successful novel was the first true blockbuster in German cinema history. Das Boot made his director an international star and his largely unknown actors into familiar faces. Das Boot was celebrated worldwide and was nominated for the Oscar six times.
Four years later, the six-part TV series was released, which takes an even more detailed and unobstructed look at the crew and their experiences on board the U96. In 1997, the director's cut was released in terms of cut, image and sound. An intensive atmosphere and nerve-scattering tension created a milestone in German film and television history!
Disc 1 The Boat - Director's Cut (Blu-ray)
Disc 2 The Boat - Cinema (Blu-ray)
Disc 3-4 The Boat – TV Series (Blu-ray) Disc 5 Bonus Material (Blu-ray)
Disc 6 Soundtrack (Audio CD)
Disc 7-8 Audiobook (MP3 CD) Bonus Material: Original Soundtrack, Audiobook to the novel, read by Dietmar Baer,
13 pages added or updated in the last 4 month
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