HMS Teredo (P338)
HMS Teredo was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P338 at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and John Brown & Company, Clydebank, and launched on 27 April 1945. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Teredo, possibly after a mollusc, the shipworm, of that name.
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Name: | HMS Teredo |
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Laid down: | 17 April 1944 |
Launched: | 27 April 1945 |
Commissioned: | 13 April 1946 |
Fate: | Scrapped June 1965 |
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Class and type: | British T class submarine |
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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 |
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Commissioned after the end of the Second World War, Teredo had a relatively peaceful career. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.[1] She was finally scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales on 5 June 1965.[2]
Commanding officers
From | To | Captain |
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1947 | 1948 | Lieutenant-Commander Gordon Tait DSC RN |
1953 | 1953 | Lieutenant-Commander D Hay RN |
gollark: Try :q! to make sure it really knows you want to EXIT!
gollark: * leave
gollark: That MAY allow you to leabe.
gollark: Randomly hit ESC and type :q constantly.
gollark: Don't do it. You can neverESCAPE
References
- Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden
- HMS Teredo, Uboat.net
Publications
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8. OCLC 53783010.
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