HMSTaciturn
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMSTaciturn
Builder	Vickers Armstrongs,Barrow
Laid down	9 March 1943
Launched	7 June 1944
Commissioned	8 October 1944
Identification	Pennant number P334
Fate	Scrapped August 1971
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General characteristics
Class & type	British T class submarine
Displacement	1,290tons 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) forward 14 ft 7 in (4.45 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
Test depth	300 ft (91 m) max
Complement	61
Armament	6 internal forward-facing21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 external forward-facing torpedo tubes 2 external amidships rear-facing torpedo tubes 1 external rear-facing torpedo tubes 6 reload torpedoes QF 4 inch (100 mm) deck gun 3 anti aircraft machine guns

HMSTaciturn was a Britishsubmarine of the third group of theT class. built byVickers Armstrongs,Barrow and launched on 7 June 1944. So far she has been the only ship of theRoyal Navy to bear the nameTaciturn.

Taciturn served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank a Japanese air warning picket hulk (this was the hulk of the salvaged former Dutch submarineK XVIII), the Japanese auxiliary submarine chaserCha 105, and a Japanese sailing vessel. On 1 August 1945,Taciturn, in company withHMSThorough, attacked Japanese shipping and shore targets off northern Bali.Taciturn sank two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire.

She survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, becoming the first ship of the class to undergo the 'Super T' conversion.

On 9 January 1958,Taciturn ran aground in theFirth of Clyde.^[1] She later was refloated with the aid of theboom defence vesselHMS Barcombe.^[2]

Taciturn was sold toThos. W. Ward and scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales on 8 August 1971.^[3]

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969].Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing.ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.OCLC 67375475.
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• British T-class submarines of the Royal Navy
• Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness
• 1944 ships
• World War II submarines of the United Kingdom
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