Summary
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.
| History | |
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| Name | Tactician |
| Builder | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow |
| Laid down | 13 November 1941 |
| Launched | 29 July 1942 |
| Commissioned | 29 November 1942 |
| Identification | Pennant number P314 |
| Fate | Scrapped December 1963 |
| Badge |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | T-class submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 276 ft 6 in (84.28 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
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| Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) surfaced |
| Test depth | 300 ft (91 m) max |
| Complement | 61 |
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Service edit
Tactician served in the Mediterranean Sea 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 under fire.[1]
A newsreel dated 1952[2] shows Tactician taking part in a military 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]
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References edit
- 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.
- Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8. OCLC 53783010.