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 HMS Turbulent (S87) |
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Ordered: | 28 July 1978 |
| Laid down: | 8 May 1980 |
| Launched: | 1 December 1982 |
| Commissioned: | 28 April 1984 |
| Homeport: | Devonport |
| Fate: | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| 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 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes Spearfish torpedoes (originally Tigerfish torpedoes) with 20 reloads UGM-84 Harpoon submarine-launched cruise missile Mines Spearfish from 1997 UGM-109 Tomahawk from 2002 |
HMS Turbulent (S87) 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 an Ministry of Defence update.
HMS Turbulent is set to be decommissioned in 2011.
See HMS Turbulent for other ships of the same name.
External links
References
- Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson
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