HMS Taciturn (P334)

HMS Taciturn (P334)

General data
Navies :	Royal Navy Australian Navy
Builder :	Vickers-Armstrong ( Barrow )
Keel laying :	March 9, 1943
Launch :	June 7, 1944
Commissioning:	October 8, 1944
Whereabouts:	Scrapped in 1971.
Technical specifications
Crew :	63 men
Displacement :	surfaced: 1327 ts submerged: 1571 ts
Length :	83.30 m
Width:	8.11 m
Draft :	4.80 m
Drive :	Diesel engines : 2500 HP (1864 KW ) Electric motors : 1450 HP (1081 KW)
Speed :	surfaced: 15.75 kn (29 km / h )
Driving range :	11000 NM (20 370 km) at 10 kn (surfaced) 80 NM (148 km) at 4 kn (submerged)
Diving depth :	90 m
Armament:	1 × 4 ″ L / 40 (102 mm) deck gun 1 × * 20 mm flak 3 × * .303 ″ (7.7 mm) MG 11 × 533 mm torpedo tubes , 17 torpedoes up to 12 sea mines

HMS Taciturn (P334) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II and after. The submarine was used by the Royal Australian Navy in the 1960s .

history

The HMS Taciturn was laid on March 9, 1943 at Vickers-Armstrong . The launch took place on June 7, 1944, the commissioning followed on October 8, 1944. The submarine belonged to the units of the T-class, whose pressure hull was riveted. HMS Taciturn was under the command of Lt. Cdr. Edward Talbot Stanley was deployed in the Asian theater of war.

In June 1945 the submarine sank a sailing ship north of Surabaya , the Japanese auxiliary sub-submarine Cha 105 (130 ts) and a Hulk used as a FLAK island . The float was the lifted wreck of the Dutch submarine K-XVIII . On August 1, 1945, Taciturn shelled land targets in Bali and sank two more sailing ships.

1950–1951, the HMS Taciturn was the first boat in its class to be modernized in accordance with the Super T concept . The hull was made more streamlined, the batteries enlarged and a snorkel installed.

During an exercise, the Taciturn collided with a merchant ship off Brighton on September 20, 1957 , but suffered no significant damage. The submarine served in the Australian Navy between 1962 and 1966 and was overhauled in 1964 in the Cockatoo Island Dockyards in Sydney .

HMS Taciturn was scrapped in Briton Ferry ( Wales ) in August 1971 .

Commanders

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According to Cdr. Edward Talbot Stanley (November 1, 1944 - February 28, 1946)
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Web links

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

HMS Taciturn on uboat.net (English)
British submarines during World War II (English)

literature

Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II . 5th edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .
Robert Hutchinson: FIGHT UNDER WATER - Submarines from 1776 to the present day . 1st edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b The uboat.net and Hutchinson do not mention the use in Australia. The information comes from the National Archives of Australia .
↑ ^a ^b The uboat.net specifies Bellis & Morcom in Ladywood ( Birmingham , England) as an additional shipyard . Bagnasco and Hutchinson do not mention the shipyard.
↑ ^a ^b The information on launch runs comes from uboat.net .
↑ ^a ^b Edward Talbot Stanley in uboat.net (English)

Remarks

↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship . Taciturn means silent or taciturn.

[Taciturn_in_Australien-1] The uboat.net and Hutchinson do not mention the use in Australia. The information comes from the National Archives of Australia .

[Bellis_&_Morcom-2] The uboat.net specifies Bellis & Morcom in Ladywood ( Birmingham , England) as an additional shipyard . Bagnasco and Hutchinson do not mention the shipyard.

[Stapellauf_der_T-Klasse-3] The information on launch runs comes from uboat.net .

[Edward_Talbot_Stanley-5] Edward Talbot Stanley in uboat.net (English)

[HMS_Taciturn-4] HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship . Taciturn means silent or taciturn.