HMS Truncheon (P353)

HMS Truncheon , May 1945, in Plymouth Sound , moored to a buoy.

The HMS Truncheon (P353) , later INS Dolphin was a submarine of the British T-class submarine of the Submarine Service of the Royal Navy .

The boat was built on the Devonport Dockyard near Plymouth . The keel was laid on November 5, 1942, launched on February 22, 1944, commissioned on May 25, 1945. In 1968 the boat was sold to the Israeli Navy - together with two sister ships - and renamed INS Dolphin . It was decommissioned in August 1975 and scrapped in 1977.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HMS Truncheon , Uboat.net
2. ^ Robert Hutchinson: Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day . HarperCollins , London 2001, ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8 , OCLC 53783010 .