HMS Trump (P333)
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| Career |
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|---|---|
| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 31 December 1942 at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Launched: | 25 March 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 8 July 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Scrapped at Newport, Wales August 1971 |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,290 tons surfaced 1,560 tons submerged |
| Length: | 276 ft 6 in (84.28 m) |
| Beam: | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) fwd 14 ft 7 in (4.44 m) aft |
| Propulsion: | Two shafts Twin diesel engines 2,500 hp (1.86 MW) each Twin electric motors 1,450 hp (1.08 MW) each |
| Speed: | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h) surfaced 9 knots (20 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles at 11 knots (8,330 km at 20 km/h) surfaced |
| Complement: | 48 |
| Armament: | 6 internal forward facing torpedo tubes 4 external forward facing torpedo tubes 6 reload torpedoes 4 inch (100 mm) deck gun |
| Diving depth: | 300 ft (91 m) max |
The all-welded submarine was commissioned in July 1944, during the Second World War and after an initial patrol in the North Sea in mid-October she was sent to the Far East. There, she carried out a further four patrols before the end of the war.
She was extensively modified from February 1954 until June 1956 with the hull being streamlined for faster and quieter underwater speed. This included the removal of the deck gun and the replacement of the conning tower with a "sail", the addition of an extra battery and the insertion of a new 14 feet long section of hull to accommodate extra motors. From 1961 until 1969 she served in the 4th Submarine Flotilla at Sydney, Australia, which included refits at Cockatoo Dockyard in 1962 and 1965. She was scrapped at Newport in August 1971.
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