TRAFALGAR HMS submarine 1983
Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 3:43 am
HMS TRAFALGAR
Ordered: 7 April 1977
Builder: Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down: 15 April 1979
Launched: 1 July 1981
Commissioned: 27 May 1983
Decommissioned: 4 December 2009
Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Fate: Awaiting Disposal
Class & type: TRAFALGAR-class submarine
Displacement: Surfaced 4,740 tons and submerged 5,208 tons
Length: 280.1 ft (85.4 m)
Beam: 32.1 ft (9.8 m)
Draught: 31.2 ft (9.5 m)
Installed power: 15,000 shp (11 MW)
Propulsion:
Single Rolls Royce PWR1 nuclear reactor driving
2 x GEC steam turbines
2 x W.H. Allen turbo generators; 3.2 MW
2 x Paxman diesel alternators 2,800 shp (2.1 MW)
Speed: Dived: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement: 18 officers and 112 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems: Ferranti/Gresham Dowty DCB/DCG or BAE Systems SMCS data system
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 or TUS 2076 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 1995
Electronic warfare & decoys: 2 × SSE Mk 8 launchers for Type 2066 and Type 2071 torpedo decoys
RESM Racal UAP passive intercept
CESM Outfit CXA
SAWCS decoys carried 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
Mines (no longer in UK inventory)
HMS TRAFALGAR is a decommissioned TRAFALGAR-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Unlike the rest of the TRAFALGAR-class boats that followed, she was not launched with a pump-jet propulsion system, but with a conventional 7-bladed propeller. TRAFALGAR was the fifth vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name, after the 1805 Battle of TRAFALGAR.
Combat history
After Operation Veritas, the attack on Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces following the 9/11 attacks in the United States, TRAFALGAR entered Plymouth Sound flying the Jolly Roger on 1 March 2002. She was welcomed back by Admiral Sir Alan West, Commander-in-Chief of the fleet and it emerged she was the first Royal Navy submarine to launch tomahawk cruise missiles against Afghanistan.
Grounding incidents
In July 1996, TRAFALGAR grounded near the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
In November 2002, TRAFALGAR again ran aground close to the Isle of Skye, causing £5 million worth of damage to her hull and injuring three sailors. She was travelling 50 metres below the surface at more than 14 knots when Lieutenant-Commander Tim Green, a student in the "Perisher" course for new submarine commanders, ordered a course change that took her onto the rocks at Fladda-chuain, a small but well-charted islet. Commander Robert Fancy, responsible for navigation, and Commander Ian McGhie, an instructor, both pleaded guilty at court-martial to contributing to the accident. On 9 March 2004 the court reprimanded both for negligence. Green was not prosecuted, but received an administrative censure.
On 28 June 2005 HMS TRAFALGAR was present at the Trafalgar 200 Review at Spithead.
In May 2008 it was reported that the crash was caused by the chart being used in the exercise being covered with tracing paper, to prevent students marking it.
TRAFALGAR was decommissioned on 4 December 2009 at Devonport.
Source & photo: Wikipedia
Mozambique 2009 33.00 MT sg?, scott?
Peter Crichton
Ordered: 7 April 1977
Builder: Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down: 15 April 1979
Launched: 1 July 1981
Commissioned: 27 May 1983
Decommissioned: 4 December 2009
Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Fate: Awaiting Disposal
Class & type: TRAFALGAR-class submarine
Displacement: Surfaced 4,740 tons and submerged 5,208 tons
Length: 280.1 ft (85.4 m)
Beam: 32.1 ft (9.8 m)
Draught: 31.2 ft (9.5 m)
Installed power: 15,000 shp (11 MW)
Propulsion:
Single Rolls Royce PWR1 nuclear reactor driving
2 x GEC steam turbines
2 x W.H. Allen turbo generators; 3.2 MW
2 x Paxman diesel alternators 2,800 shp (2.1 MW)
Speed: Dived: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement: 18 officers and 112 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems: Ferranti/Gresham Dowty DCB/DCG or BAE Systems SMCS data system
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 or TUS 2076 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 1995
Electronic warfare & decoys: 2 × SSE Mk 8 launchers for Type 2066 and Type 2071 torpedo decoys
RESM Racal UAP passive intercept
CESM Outfit CXA
SAWCS decoys carried 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
Mines (no longer in UK inventory)
HMS TRAFALGAR is a decommissioned TRAFALGAR-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Unlike the rest of the TRAFALGAR-class boats that followed, she was not launched with a pump-jet propulsion system, but with a conventional 7-bladed propeller. TRAFALGAR was the fifth vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name, after the 1805 Battle of TRAFALGAR.
Combat history
After Operation Veritas, the attack on Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces following the 9/11 attacks in the United States, TRAFALGAR entered Plymouth Sound flying the Jolly Roger on 1 March 2002. She was welcomed back by Admiral Sir Alan West, Commander-in-Chief of the fleet and it emerged she was the first Royal Navy submarine to launch tomahawk cruise missiles against Afghanistan.
Grounding incidents
In July 1996, TRAFALGAR grounded near the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
In November 2002, TRAFALGAR again ran aground close to the Isle of Skye, causing £5 million worth of damage to her hull and injuring three sailors. She was travelling 50 metres below the surface at more than 14 knots when Lieutenant-Commander Tim Green, a student in the "Perisher" course for new submarine commanders, ordered a course change that took her onto the rocks at Fladda-chuain, a small but well-charted islet. Commander Robert Fancy, responsible for navigation, and Commander Ian McGhie, an instructor, both pleaded guilty at court-martial to contributing to the accident. On 9 March 2004 the court reprimanded both for negligence. Green was not prosecuted, but received an administrative censure.
On 28 June 2005 HMS TRAFALGAR was present at the Trafalgar 200 Review at Spithead.
In May 2008 it was reported that the crash was caused by the chart being used in the exercise being covered with tracing paper, to prevent students marking it.
TRAFALGAR was decommissioned on 4 December 2009 at Devonport.
Source & photo: Wikipedia
Mozambique 2009 33.00 MT sg?, scott?
Peter Crichton