HMS Trusty (N45)

HMS Trusty (left) passing HMS Sibyl (foreground), as the latter nears port at Dundee.
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Trusty
Builder:	Vickers Armstrong, Barrow
Laid down:	15 March 1940
Launched:	14 March 1941
Commissioned:	30 July 1941
Fate:	sold for breaking up January 1947
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General characteristics
Class & type:	British T class submarine
Displacement:	1,090 tons surfaced 1,575 tons submerged
Length:	275 ft (84 m)
Beam:	26 ft 6 in (8.08 m)
Draught:	16.3 ft (5.0 m)
Propulsion:	Two shafts Twin diesel engines 2,500 hp (1.86 MW) each Twin electric motors 1,450 hp (1.08 MW) each
Speed:	15.25 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-facing 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 external forward-facing torpedo tubes 3 external backward-facing torpedo tubes 6 reload torpedoes 1 x 4-inch (102 mm) deck gun 3 anti-aircraft machine guns

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.

Career

Trusty 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

1. HMS Trusty, Uboot.net

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