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Submarine of the Royal Navy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Truncheon (pennant number P353) was a group three T Class submarine of the Royal Navy which entered service in the last few months of World War II. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named Truncheon. She was sold to Israel in 1968[1] and commissioned into the Israeli Sea Corps as INS Dolphin.[1]
HMS Truncheon secured to a buoy in Plymouth Sound, May 1945 | |
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Name | HMS Truncheon |
Builder | Devonport Dockyard |
Laid down | 5 November 1942 |
Launched | 22 February 1944 |
Commissioned | 25 May 1945 |
Fate | Sold to Israeli Navy as INS Dolphin in 1968 |
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Israel | |
Name | INS Dolphin |
Commissioned | 1968 |
Renamed | אח"י דולפין |
Identification | צ-79 |
Fate | Scrapped 1977 |
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Length | 276 ft 6 in (84.28 m) |
Beam | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 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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At the end of the war, all surviving Group 1 and Group 2 boats were scrapped, but the group 3 boats (which were of welded rather than riveted construction), were retained and fitted with snorkel masts.
Truncheon was sold to the Israeli Navy in 1968,[1] and renamed Dolphin.
The submarine was purchased by Israel in 1968.[1] Two of her T-class sisters, HMS Turpin and HMS Totem, were also sold to Israel. She was commissioned into the Israeli Sea Corps in 1968.[1]
She was eventually scrapped in 1977. By the time of her decommissioning, she was the only T class submarine in service in the world. The lead boat of the new Dolphin-class submarine commissioned in 1999 carried on the name Dolphin.
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