HMS tabard (P342)

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HMS tabard (P342)
Royal Navy Royal Australian Navy
HMS Tabard 1946
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Taciturn class ( T class )
Navies :

Royal Navy
Australian Navy

Builder : Scott's Shipbuilding ( Greenock )
Keel laying : September 6, 1944
Launch : November 21, 1945
Commissioning: June 25, 1946
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1974.
Technical data
(see Taciturn class )

HMS Tabard (P342) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy .

The submarine was only put into service after the end of the war, so it was no longer used in combat. Tabard belonged to the units of the T-Class, whose pressure hull was completely welded. In 1950/51 the boat was overhauled and modernized according to the Super T concept . In 1962 the Australian Navy took over the submarine. On May 8, 1963, she collided with the frigate HMAS Queenborough during an anti-submarine exercise . Both units suffered minor damage and were overhauled at Fleet Base East near Sydney .

The Tabard returned to Great Britain in 1969 and remained firmly moored in Gosport until 1974 . She served as a training boat for training submarine crews, making it the last British T-class boat in service with the Royal Navy. The last British boat of the class in active sea service was the HMS Tiptoe , which was decommissioned in 1969 .

The HMS Tabard was sold as scrap on January 2, 1974 and demolished in March of the same year.

Web links

Commons : Taciturn class  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 5th edition 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9
  • Robert Hutchinson: KAMPF UNDER WASSER - Submarines from 1776 to today , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The uboat.net does not mention the use in Australia. Hutchinson states that the tabard was used by the Australian Navy between 1962 and 1968.
  2. ↑ Hutchinson and Bagnasco do not provide any information on the launching of the T-class submarines. The information on launch runs comes from uboat.net .
  3. ↑ The uboat.net states that the Tabard was put into service on June 25, 1946. Hutchinson states June 25, 1945.

Remarks

  1. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship . see also Tappert .