| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSN 4b |
| Fate: | Formally decommissioned July 2025 before spending up to 2 years with a skeleton crew being prepared for long-term storage afloat. She will then join the fleet of boats in 3 Basin at Devonport to await disposal. |
| 2024: | Commander | Aaron Williams |
Seventh Trafalgar Class Submarine Named by Mrs Hamilton, wife of Archie Hamilton, Minister of State for Armed Forces. First SSN to be launched from Devonshire Dock Hall on shiplift
There is limited information about Triumph's service to the nation in the public domain for obvious reasons but she has been deployed across the globe. In the 1990s this involved tracking the much-reduced Russian submarine fleet in the High North and North Atlantic but as time went on, RN submarines were increasingly sent further afield, particularly to the Middle East. In 1998 the Tomahawk Land Attack missile entered service with the RN and for many years, at least one T or S-class boat was kept deployed East of Suez as the 'duty TLAM boat', ready to respond to events in the region.
Triumph has fired Tomahawk missiles in anger on at least 3 occasions, each time flying the Jolly Roger flag to mark a successful combat patrol on her return home. In 2001 she participated in Operation Veritas, launching strikes against terrorist targets in Afghanistan. In 2011 she conducted two separate patrols as part of Operation Ellamy, firing TLAM against targets in Libya in March and again in June.
| 03-01-1986 | Ordered from Vickers, Barrow |
| 02-02-1987 | Laid Down |
| 16-02-1991 | Launched |
| 12-10-1991 | Completed |
| 10-11-2014 | HMS Triumph arrived in Faslane for an eight-month refit after spending the last 10 months on patrol in UK waters. |
| 02-09-2016 | Following an extensive period in maintenance and a number of equipment upgrades, HMS Triumph retook her place on the front line. |
| Primary Roles | Anti-submarine/surface vessel warfare |
| Secondary Roles | Land attack (optional), Minelaying, Designed for littoral, deep sea or world-wide deployment. |
| Length overall | 91.7m |
| Beam | 10.4m |
| Draught | 10m (max) |
| Displacement | 6,000 tons (surface) |
| 6,500 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | over 300m |
| Speed | Submerged 32 knots (design) |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Reactor | 1 x Rolls Royce PWR-2 |
| Turbines | 2 x GEC Turbines |
| Generators | 2 x WH Allen turbo generators, 2 Paxman diesel alternators (2,800 hp) |
| Power | 15,500 shp |
| Endurance | 90 day patrol |
| Propulsion | Pump jet propulsor |
| Armament | 5 x 533mm missile tubes |
| Total of 38 weapons | |
| Sub Harpoon missiles (SSM) | |
| Spearfish torpedoes | |
| Tigerfish torpedoes | |
| Tomahawk missiles (SLCM) | |
| Mines (in lieu of torpedoes) | |
| Countermeasures | 2 x SSE Mk 10 Launchers for Type 2066 and 2071 decoys |
| ESM; Racal UAP 3, passive intercept | |
| Navigation | Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 |
| Combat Data Systems | BAeSEMA SMCS |
| Weapons Control | Dowty tactical control system SAFS 3 FCS |
| Sonars | Marconi/Ferranti Type 2076 integrated suite with reelable towed array |
| Complement | 108 (12 officers) + 12 spare |
| Class: | 2010 - Present: Astute Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSN 5 |
New Year 1915. The world is locked in a terrible conflict, and Winston Churchill has conceived of a bold plan. Constantinople would be seized and Turkey knocked out of the war. The key is the Dardanelles.
The British submarine E14 approached the portal of the Ottoman Empire, viewing the ominous darkness from its small conning tower, eight feet above the waves. Its commander, Courtney Boyle, had told his superiors he thought the voyage – probably the longest dive ever contemplated in a submarine – was impossible. It would also take him past the wreckage of the submarines that had tried to pass that way in the days before: their dead buried on the beach, their survivors in captivity.
The crew had said their goodbyes. They had written their farewell letters and given them into safekeeping, knowing that the chances were now against their survival. This book sets out what happened next and tells the story of the pioneering submarines of the Dardanelles.
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| Primary Roles | Anti-submarine/surface vessel warfare |
| Secondary Roles | Land attack (optional), Minelaying, Designed for littoral, deep sea or world-wide deployment. |
| Length overall | 91.7m |
| Beam | 10.4m |
| Draught | 10m (max) |
| Displacement | 6,000 tons (surface) |
| 6,500 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | over 300m |
| Speed | Submerged 32 knots (design) |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Reactor | 1 x Rolls Royce PWR-2 |
| Turbines | 2 x GEC Turbines |
| Generators | 2 x WH Allen turbo generators, 2 Paxman diesel alternators (2,800 hp) |
| Power | 15,500 shp |
| Endurance | 90 day patrol |
| Propulsion | Pump jet propulsor |
| Armament | 5 x 533mm missile tubes |
| Total of 38 weapons | |
| Sub Harpoon missiles (SSM) | |
| Spearfish torpedoes | |
| Tigerfish torpedoes | |
| Tomahawk missiles (SLCM) | |
| Mines (in lieu of torpedoes) | |
| Countermeasures | 2 x SSE Mk 10 Launchers for Type 2066 and 2071 decoys |
| ESM; Racal UAP 3, passive intercept | |
| Navigation | Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 |
| Combat Data Systems | BAeSEMA SMCS |
| Weapons Control | Dowty tactical control system SAFS 3 FCS |
| Sonars | Marconi/Ferranti Type 2076 integrated suite with reelable towed array |
| Complement | 108 (12 officers) + 12 spare |
| Class: | 2010 - Present: Astute Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSN 5 |
New Year 1915. The world is locked in a terrible conflict, and Winston Churchill has conceived of a bold plan. Constantinople would be seized and Turkey knocked out of the war. The key is the Dardanelles.
The British submarine E14 approached the portal of the Ottoman Empire, viewing the ominous darkness from its small conning tower, eight feet above the waves. Its commander, Courtney Boyle, had told his superiors he thought the voyage – probably the longest dive ever contemplated in a submarine – was impossible. It would also take him past the wreckage of the submarines that had tried to pass that way in the days before: their dead buried on the beach, their survivors in captivity.
The crew had said their goodbyes. They had written their farewell letters and given them into safekeeping, knowing that the chances were now against their survival. This book sets out what happened next and tells the story of the pioneering submarines of the Dardanelles.
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