![]() HMS Tantivy | |
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Name | HMS Tantivy |
Builder | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow |
Laid down | 4 July 1942 |
Launched | 6 April 1943 |
Commissioned | 25 July 1943 |
Fate | Sunk as target 1951 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | British T class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 276 ft 6 in (84.28 m) |
Beam | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
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Range | 4,500 nautical miles at 11 knots (8,330 km at 20 km/h) surfaced |
Test depth | 300 ft (91 m) max |
Complement | 61 |
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Tantivy served in the Far East for much of its wartime career, where it sank a Siamese sailing vessel, the Japanese merchant cargo ship Shiretoko Maru, the Japanese communications vessel No. 137, the Japanese barge No. 136, the Japanese motor sailing vessel Tachibana Maru No.47, a Japanese tug, two Japanese coasters, a Japanese sailing vessel, the small Japanese vessels Chokyu Maru No.2, Takasago Maru No.3, and Otori Maru, and twelve small unidentified vessels (all pretty well undefended and peaceable). It laid numerous mines.
It survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, finally being sunk as an anti-submarine target in the Cromarty Firth in 1951. [1]
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