HMS Tactician (P314)

HMS Tactician was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P314 by Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow, and launched on 29 July 1942.

HMS Tactician in 1953
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Tactician
Builder: Vickers Armstrong, Barrow
Laid down: 13 November 1941
Launched: 29 July 1942
Commissioned: 29 November 1942
Fate: Scrapped December 1963
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General characteristics
Class and type: British T class submarine
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) 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:

Service

Tactician served in the Mediterranean and the Far East during her wartime career. Whilst operating against the Italians, she sank the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V17 / Pia and the Italian sailing vessel Bice. She also torpedoed the Italian merchant vessel Rosandra off the coast of Albania; sinking her the following day.

On being transferred to the Pacific, commanded by Lt. Cdr. Anthony Collett, DSC, she continued to harass enemy shipping, sinking a small Japanese vessel and two Siamese sailing vessels before the end of the war. She took part in Operation Cockpit, where she rescued a downed US airman, Lt. D. C. Klahn, under fire.[1]

A newsreel dated 1952[2] shows Tactician taking part in an exercise in the Sea of Japan. In it, the submarine is seen diving.[3]

Tactician survived the war and continued in service with the navy, finally being scrapped at Newport on 6 December 1963.[4]

See also

References
  1. - 1053.html army myitkyina airfield 1944 1053 Flight Archive
  2. Pathe newsreel dated 1952
  3. Green, Allan C (1953), HMS. TACTICIAN, retrieved 28 December 2018
  4. HMS Tactician, Uboat.net


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