HMS Turbulent is a Trafalgar-class submarine of the Royal Navy built by Vickers Shipbuilding, Barrow-in-Furness.
Turbulent went through her modernisation and first nuclear refuel in 1997.
On 16 April 2003 HMS Turbulent was the first Royal Navy vessel to return home from the war against Iraq. She arrived in Plymouth flying the Jolly Roger after launching thirty Tomahawk cruise missiles.
HMS Turbulent is in service and is based at the naval base at HMNB Devonport.
The submarine has recently left Devonport Naval Base with some of the most advanced communications links in the Royal Navy’s fleet of submarines thanks to a Ministry of Defence update.
HMS Turbulent is set to be decommissioned in 2011
Ordered: 28 July 1978
Laid down: 8 May 1980
Launched: 1 December 1982
Commissioned: 28 April 1984
Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Identification: Pennant number: S87
Fate: Active
General characteristics
Class and type: Trafalgar-class submarine
Displacement: Surfaced: 4,740 tons
Dived: 5,208 tons
Length: 280.1 ft (85.4 m)
Beam: 32.1 ft (9.8 m)
Draught: 31.2 ft (9.5 m)
Propulsion: Rolls-Royce PWR1 nuclear reactor
2 × GEC turbines
1 × shaft pump jet 15,000 hp (11 MW)
motor for emergency drive
emergency retractable propellor
2 × W H Allen turbo generators 2 MW
2 × Paxman diesel alternators 2,800 hp (2.1 MW)
Speed: Dived: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement: 18 officers
112 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems: Ferranti/Gresham Dowty DCB/DCG
Type 2072 hull-mounted flank array passive sonar
Plessey Type 2020 or Marconi/Plessey Type 2074 hull-mounted active and passive search and attack sonar
Ferranti Type 2046 towed array passive search sonar
Thomson Sintra Type 2019 PARIS or Thorn EMI 2082 passive intercept and ranging sonar
Marconi Type 2077 short range active classification sonar
Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I band navigation radar
Pilkington Optronics CK34 search periscope
Pilkington Optronics CH84/CM010 attack periscope
BAE Systems SMCS from 1997
Type 2074 sonar from 1997
Electronic warfare
and decoys: 2 × SSE Mk8 launchers for Type 2066 and Type 2071 torpedo decoys
RESM Racal UAP passive intercept
CESM Outfit CXA
SAWCS decoys from 2002
Armament: 5 x 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Space for a combination of 30 weapons
Current weapons:
Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles
Spearfish wire-guided heavyweight torpedoes
Decommissioned weapons:
Harpoon anti-surface missiles
Tigerfish torpedoes
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