HMS Trusty (N45) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched in March 1941.
HMS Trusty (left) passing HMS Sibyl (foreground), as the latter nears port at Dundee.
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Name | HMS Trusty |
Builder | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow |
Laid down | 15 March 1940 |
Launched | 14 March 1941 |
Commissioned | 30 July 1941 |
Identification | Pennant number N45 |
Fate | Sold for breaking up January 1947 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | British T class submarine |
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Length | 275 ft (84 m) |
Beam | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
Draught | 16.3 ft (5.0 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 |
Complement | 61 |
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Career
editTrusty served in the Mediterranean and in the Pacific Far East. She sank the Italian merchant Eridano in December 1941, and on reassigning to the Pacific, she sank the Japanese merchant cargo ship Toyohashi Maru and damaged the Japanese troop transport Columbia Maru.[1]
She survived the war and was sold to be broken up for scrap in January 1947. She was scrapped at Milford Haven in July 1947.
Notes
edit- ^ HMS Trusty, Uboat.net
References
edit- Akermann, Paul (2002). Encyclopaedia of British Submarines 1901–1955 (reprint of the 1989 ed.). Penzance, Cornwall: Periscope Publishing. ISBN 1-904381-05-7.
- Bagnasco, Erminio (1977). Submarines of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-962-6.
- 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.
- Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Kemp, Paul J. (1990). The T-class Submarine: The Classic British Design. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-826-7.
- McCartney, Innes (2006). British Submarines 1939–1945. New Vanguard. Vol. 129. Oxford, UK: Osprey. ISBN 1-84603-007-2.