HMS Tireless (S88)
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| Commissioned: | 5th July 1979 |
| Keel laying: | June 6, 1981 |
| Launch: | March 17, 1984 |
| Commissioning: | 5th October 1985 |
| Decommissioning: | 19th June 2014 |
| status | out of service as of 2014 |
| Data | |
| Displacement: | 5,200 ts |
| Length: | 85.4 m |
| Width: | 9.8 m |
| Drive: | 1 × PWR1 nuclear reactor |
| Top speed: | 30+ knots |
| Crew: | 130 |
The HMS Tireless (S88) is a nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy and belongs to the Trafalgar class .
history
The Tireless was ordered in 1979 from Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd (today BAE Systems ) and laid down in 1981. Launching and christening of the ship took place in 1984, the commissioning a year later.
In the following years the Tireless moved to several exercises all over the world, in 1991 she visited the Arctic, among other places. The first major overhaul followed in early 1996, which lasted until 1999.
On May 12, 2000, while the Tireless was sailing in the Mediterranean, there was a loss of convection of the cooling liquid in the reactor. For this reason the submarine called at the port of Gibraltar . While the Royal Navy initially assumed that it would be able to replace the defective coolant pump within a few days, it took almost a year, until May 2, 2001, before the Tireless could leave the port, which led to tensions between the governments in London and Madrid .
On April 19, 2004, the Tireless met the American Los Angeles-class submarine , USS Hampton (SSN-767) , below the North Pole and surfaced through arctic ice. On July 9, 2004, the Tireless had to enter the port of Gibraltar again after unspecified technical problems occurred. This angered the Spanish government, also because July 21st marked the 300th anniversary of the conquest of Gibraltar. The Tireless left the port on July 15th.
In 2007 the Tireless carried out an exercise under arctic ice with the American USS Alexandria (SSN-757) . On March 21, an oxygen candle exploded on board 274 km north of Alaska , killing two sailors Paul McCann and Anthony Huntrod and injuring another. The reactor on board remained undamaged. The injured sailor was flown to Anchorage by the US Air National Guard .
In April 2014 Tireless took part in the search for the lost Boeing 777 from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the Indian Ocean . She returned from this mission to the port of Plymouth on June 1, 2014 and was retired from active duty there in a solemn ceremony on June 19, 2014.
See also
Web links
- Official website (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gibraltar: British withdraw submarine , Tagesspiegel of May 7, 2001
- ↑ News article on n-tv
- ↑ Alaska Air National Guard Assists Seaman Injured in British Submarine ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ British submarine should find flight MH370 on www.n-tv.de
