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HMS Trafalgar (S107)

Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Royal Navy

Summary

Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Royal Navy

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section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	HMS Trafalgar SSN cropped.JPG
image_caption	HMS Trafalgar, 2008
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
country	United Kingdom
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name	HMS Trafalgar
namesake	Battle of 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
badge	[[File:HMS Trafalgar Crest.jpg	100px]]
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
header_caption
class
*Surfaced: 4,500 to {{convert	4,800	t	abbr	on}}
*Submerged: 5,200 to {{convert	5,300	t	abbr	on}}
length	85.4 m
beam	9.8 m
draught	9.5 m
propulsion	*1 × Rolls-Royce PWR1 nuclear reactor
*2 × Paxman diesel generators {{convert	2800	shp	MW	abbr	on}}
*1 × 7-bladed conventional propeller<ref name	"Graham, Ian 1989, page 12"Graham, Ian, Attack Submarine, Gloucester Publishing, Oct 1989, page 12.
speed	Over 30 kn, submerged
range	Unlimited
complement	130
section4	{{Infobox ship/service record
operations	Operation Veritas (Afghanistan)

Surfaced: 4,500 to 4,800 t
Submerged: 5,200 to 5,300 t
2 × GEC steam turbines
2 × WH Allen turbo generators; 3.2 MW
2 × Paxman diesel generators 2800 shp
1 × 7-bladed conventional propeller
1 × motor for emergency drive
1 × auxiliary retractable prop
2 × SSE Mk8 launchers for Type 2066 and Type 2071 torpedo decoys
RESM Racal UAP passive intercept
CESM Outfit CXA
SAWCS decoys carried from 2002
5 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes with stowage for up to 30 weapons:
- Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles
- Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes

'*HMS Trafalgar''' is a decommissioned 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.

Operational history

In 2012 a Royal Navy submariner was jailed for 8 years for trying "to pass secrets to the Russians that could have undermined Britain's national security"; one element of this was information on "a secret operation undertaken by HMS Trafalgar.

Combat history

After Operation Veritas, the attack on Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces following the September 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.

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.

Decommissioning

Trafalgar was decommissioned on 4 December 2009 at Devonport.

References

''Jane's Fighting Ships, 2004-2005''. Jane's Information Group Limited. p. 796. {{ISBN. 0-7106-2623-1.
Bush, Steve. (2014). "British Warships and Auxiliaries". Maritime Books.
Graham, Ian, ''Attack Submarine'', Gloucester Publishing, Oct 1989, page 12. {{ISBN. 978-0-531-17156-1
Hopkins, Nick. (12 December 2012). "Royal Navy submariner jailed for trying to pass secrets to Russia". [[The Guardian]].
(13 November 2012). "Royal Navy petty officer admits trying to give nuclear submarine secrets to Russia". [[Evening Standard]].
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070621174940/http://www.btinternet.com/~warship/News/afghan9.htm Trafalgar Returns]
[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm101102/text/101102w0001.htm#10110298000032 House of Commons Hansard Written Answers] (publications.parliament.uk)
"Latest Scotland, UK & World News - The Daily Record". dailyrecord.co.uk.
Dawar, Anil. (23 May 2008). "Submarine's £5m repair bill blamed on tracing paper". The Guardian.
(10 November 2009). "Submarine's final sailing to base". [[BBC News]].

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