Triumph (S 93)
| 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. |
Commanders
| 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.
Events
| 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. |
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