HMSThorough
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMSThorough
Builder	Vickers Armstrong,Barrow
Laid down	26 October 1942
Launched	30 October 1943
Commissioned	1 March 1944
Fate	Scrapped June 1962
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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

HMSThorough was a Britishsubmarine of the third group of theT class. She was built asP324 byVickers Armstrong,Barrow, and launched on 30 October 1943. So far she has been the only ship of theRoyal Navy to bear the nameThorough.

Thorough served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank twenty seven Japanese sailing vessels, seven coasters, a small Japanese vessel, a Japanese barge, a small Japanese gunboat, a Japanese trawler, and the Malaysian sailing vesselPalange. In August 1945, in company withHMSTaciturn, she attacked Japanese shipping and shore targets off northern Bali.Thorough sank a Japanese coaster and a sailing vessel with gunfire.

On 16 December 1957Thorough returned to HMSDolphin,Portsmouth Dockyard, after completing the first circumnavigation by a submarine.^[1] While in Australian waters, on 2 August 1956, she rescued one of the four survivors of the sinking of the 'sixty-miler',Birchgrove Park.^[2][3]

She survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, finally being scrapped at Dunston on Tyne on 29 June 1962.^[4]

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• British T-class submarines of the Royal Navy
• Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness
• 1943 ships
• World War II submarines of the United Kingdom
• Cold War submarines of the United Kingdom

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