HMS Talent (S92)
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| Ordered: | 10 September 1984 |
| Laid down: | 13 May 1986 |
| Launched: | 15 April 1988 |
| Sponsored by: | The Princess Royal |
| Commissioned: | 12 May 1990 |
| Homeport: | HMNB Devonport, Plymouth |
| Fate: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | Trafalgar class submarine |
| Displacement: | 4,800 tonnes, surfaced 5,300 tonnes, dived |
| Length: | 85.4 m (280 ft) |
| Beam: | 9.8 m (32 ft) |
| Draught: | 9.5 m (31 ft) |
| Installed power: | 15,000 shp (11 MW) |
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| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h) dived |
| Range: | Unlimited, except by food supplies and maintenance requirements. |
| Complement: | 130 (18 officers) |
| 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 |
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| Armament: |
5 x 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes with stowage for up to 30 weapons; |
HMS Talent is the sixth of seven Trafalgar-class nuclear submarines of the Royal Navy, and was built at Barrow-in-Furness.
Talent was launched by The Princess Royal in April 1988 and commissioned in May 1990. She was the last submarine to be launched down a slipway.[citation needed]. The boat is affiliated with Shrewsbury in Shropshire. Talent is the third submarine of the Royal Navy to bear the name. The first was the World War II HMS Talent (P322), a T-class submarine transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy as RNLMS Zwaardvisch in 1943.
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[edit] Operational history
Talent undertook a refit at her base port in HMNB Devonport and in March 2007 rejoined the active fleet, following a £386 million upgrade. She has been given a new reactor core and has been equipped with a new sonar suite, Sonar 2076. Sonar 2076 has the power equivalent to approximately 400 PCs and can precisely track the movement of small objects from hundreds of miles away. The Royal Navy describe Sonar 2076 as the most advanced sonar in service with any navy in the world. She has also been given the ability to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles.
[edit] Gallery
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Talent in refit at Devonport Navy Days, 5 September 2009.
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Talent in refit at Devonport Navy Days, 5 September 2009
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Talent reactor being refuelled, 5 September 2009.
[edit] References
- Notes
- ^ All boats have a pump jet propulsor with the exception of Trafalgar which was fitted with a 7-bladed conventional propeller.[2]
- References
- ^ http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/The-Fleet/Submarines/Fleet-Submarines/Trafalgar-Class
- ^ Graham, Ian, Attack Submarine, Gloucester Publishing, Oct 1989, page 12. ISBN 978-0531171561
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