HMS Templar (P316)

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HMS Templar
History
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Templar
Builder Vickers Armstrong, Barrow
Laid down28 December 1941
Launched26 October 1942
Commissioned15 February 1943
Identification Pennant number P316
Fatesunk as target 1954, scrapped July 1959
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General characteristics
Class and type T-class submarine
Displacement
  • 1,290 tons surfaced
  • 1,560 tons submerged
Length276 ft 6 in (84.28 m)
Beam25 ft 6 in (7.77 m)
Draught
  • 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) forward
  • 14 ft 7 in (4.45 m) aft
Propulsion
  • Two shafts
  • Twin diesel engines 2,500 hp (1,900 kW) each
  • Twin electric motors 1,450 hp (1,080 kW) each
Speed
  • 15.5 kn (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) surfaced
  • 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph) submerged
Range4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) surfaced
Test depth300 ft (91 m) max
Complement61
Armament

HMS Templar was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, and launched on 26 October 1942 with the pennant number P316. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Templar, probably after the crusading order, the Knights Templar.

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Service

Templar served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank the Japanese merchant cargo ship Tyokai Maru and laid mines. She torpedoed and damaged the Japanese light cruiser Kitakami, and attacked the German submarine U-1062 but missed her with torpedoes.

She survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, finally being used as a target and sunk in Loch Striven, Scotland in 1954. She was salvaged on 4 December 1958 and arrived at Troon, Scotland on 19 July 1959 to be scrapped. [1]

Notes

  1. "HMS Templar (P316)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 13 September 2015.

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