Tabard to TalentPage last Updated:
3-Jan-2008
| Name | Class | Pennant | Crew | Built | Builder
| Disposal Date | Method |
Tabard | T3 | P342, S42 c/s MVSN | 61 | 21-Nov-45 | Scotts, Greenock |
01-Mar-74 | Scrap |  Too late for war. Reconstructed 53-55 - lengthened by 20 feet. Very streamlined, and quiet, with large fin
incorporating bridge, recording over 18 knots dived. 4thSM Sydney 60-66.
8 May 63, collided with HMAS Queenborough, off Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia, during exercises. The submarine
suffered superficial damage and a bent fin and returned to Sydney. Static training boat at Dolphin 1969-74, until
replaced by Alliance.
Later Picture. |
Taciturn | T3 | P334, later S34 c/s MVTD | 61 |
07-Jun-44 | Vickers Armstrong
Barrow | 01-Aug-71 | Scrap |
 Lt.Cdr. E.T. Stanley, DSO, DSC, RN. Operated in the
Atlantic before transfer
to Pacific Fleet.
15 Jun 45, sank a Japanese air warning picket hulk (the hulk of the salvaged former Dutch submarine K XVIII) and the Japanese
auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 105 (130 tons) with gunfire in the Madoera Strait to the north of Surabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies.
17 Jun 45, sank a Japanese sailing vessel north of Surabaya, Java.
1 Aug 45, with HMS Thorough (Lt. A.G. Chandler, RNR) attacked Japanese shipping and shore targets off northern Bali.
Sank two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire.
Converted and streamlined 1950-51. 1951 3rd SM Flotilla, 20-Sep-57:
collided with a merchant ship during exercises off Brighton, U.K., in the English Channel.
No damage is reported. 1960 2nd SM Flotilla at Portsmouth. Late 1962 to Australian waters.
22-Aug-66 left Sydney to return UK. 8-Aug-71 arrived Briton Ferry for breaking up.
Post-war, in the Mediterranean. Streamlined.
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Tactician | T3 | P314, P94, S72 c/s GGGG | 61 | 29
Jul-42 | Vickers Armstrong Barrow | 01-Dec-63 | Scrap |
 Lt.Cdr. A.F. Collett, DSC, RN.
5 May 43, sank the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V17 / Pia (385 GRT) with gunfire about 10 nm west of Grosseto,
Italy in position 42º34'N, 10º45'E.
12 Jun 43, sank the Italian sailing vessel Bice (1459 GRT) with gunfire 5 nm NE of the Bari lighthouse.
14 Jun 43, torpedoed and damaged the Italian merchant Rosandra (8035 GRT) off the coast of Albania in position
40º14'N, 19º28'E. The ship sinks the following day.
To Eastern Fleet, operating in Straits of Malacca.
28 Feb 44, sank a small Japanese vessel off Penang.
19 Apr 44, Acted as Air Sea
Rescue boat during combined US/UK air attack on Sabang, rescuing one US
airman - interesting report here.
27 May 44, sank two Siamese sailing vessels with gunfire of the west coast of Siam.
Later COs were
Lt. NLA Jewell, MBE, DSC, RN (formerly of Seraph), 15 Nov 44 - 25 Jun 45; Lt. WH Kett, DSC, RNR from 25 Jun 45 to end of war.
Operated off Korea during
Korean War. In August 1953 Tactician arrived in New Zealand to
carry out exercises with units of the Royal New Zealand Navy at Auckland,
Lyttelton, Wellington, Picton, and Dunedin. Later with 7th SM in
Singapore. Later part of 4th SM, Sydney, Australia. Scrapped at
Newport. |
Taku | T1 | 38T, N38 | 56 | 20-May-39 |
Cammell Laird Birkenhead | 01-Nov-46 |
Scrap | 8 May 1940 (Lt.Cdr. V.J.H. Van der Byl, RN) attacked a German convoy with ten torpedoes
and damages the German torpedo boat Möwe (900 tons) east of Denmark in position 56º45'N, 06º12'E.
2 Nov 40, (Lt. J.F.B. Brown, RN) hit the German tanker Gedania (8923 GRT) in the Bay of Biscay about 35 nm SW of Belle-Ile island in
position 46º54'N, 03º50'W with a dud torpedo.
6 May 41, (Lt.Cdr. E.C.F. Nicolay, RN) torpedoed the Italian merchant Cagliari (2322 GRT) in the
Tyrrhenian Sea, position 39º11'N, 15º05'E.
11 Jun 41, torpedoed/sank German munitions transport Tilly L. M. Russ (1600 GRT) at Bengasi, Libya.
12 Jun 41, torpedoed/sank Italian merchant Silvio Scaroni (1367 GRT) in the Gulf of Syrte 32º27'N, 18º42'E.
13 Jul 41, torpedoed/sank Italian passenger/cargo ship Caldea (2703 GRT) 10 nm off the Benghazi lighthouse, Libya.
15 Jul 41, sank the Italian auxiliary minesweeper Vincenso P. (270 GRT) about 25 nm SE of Auegia, Libya.
Operations Harpoon/Vigorous off
Taranto, June 1942.
15 Aug 42, attacked but missed the German merchant Menes (5609 GRT) with 4 torpedoes NE of Benghazi, Libya, 33º16'N, 21º16'E.
24 Oct 42, (Lt. A.J.W. Pitt, RN) sank a small Greek sailing vessel with gunfire west of Kos, Greece, 36º23'N, 27º00'E.
25 Oct 42, attacked but missed Italian tanker Arca (2238 GRT) off Chios, Greece.
26 Oct 42, torpedoed/sank Italian tanker Arca (2238 GRT) south-west of Chios, Greece in position 38º04'N, 25º27'E.
27 Oct 42, sank Greek sailing vessel Lora (121 GRT) with gunfire off Lemnos, Greece.
31 Oct 42, torpedoed, but missed, Italian tanker Cerere (1267 GRT) about 10 nm S of Cape Sounio, Greece, 37º30'N, 24º03'E.
14 Dec 42, torpedoed/sank Italian tanker Delfin (5322 GRT) in the Aegean Sea about 5 nm N of Macrosini island, Greece, 37º52'N, 24º06'E.
22 Dec 42, sank Greek sailing vessel Niki (150 GRT) with gunfire in the Potidea Channel, 40º13'N, 23º19'E.
7 Feb 44, torpedoed/sank German merchant Rheinhausen (6298 GRT) about 20 nm N of Stavanger, Norway.
12 Feb 44, torpedoed and heavily damaged the German merchant Harm Fritzen (4818 GRT) off Stavanger, Norway. The ship was beached to prevent it
sinking, later salvaged.
 13 Feb, 1944 torpedoed/sank German merchant Hans Bornhofen (2130 GRT) in the
Boknafjorden, 8 nm S of Skudeneshavn, Norway, 59º08'N, 05º24'E.
Damaged by a mine in April 1944. Broken up at Llanelly.
See some personal Memoirs from George
Smith.
Taku (foreground) with Una and Unrivalled at Malta in 1943. (IWM
picture) Full list of COs: Lt.Cdr. VJH Van der Byl, RN, 24 Feb 40 - 8 Oct 40;
Lt. JF Beaufoy-Brown, RN, 8 Oct 40 - 21 Apr 41;
Lt.Cdr. ECF Nicolay, RN, 21 Apr 41 - Aug 41;
Lt.Cdr. PJH Bartlett, RN, August 1941;
Lt.Cdr. JG Hopkins, RN, 8 Dec 41 - 12 Oct 42;
Lt. Arthur JW Pitt, DSO RN, 12 Oct 42 - 6 May 44;
Lt. PS Parmenter, RNR, 6 May 44 - 20 Oct 44;
Lt.Cdr. GE Hunt, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN, from 20 Oct 44 to end of war. Interesting memoir
here. The Lincolnshire town of Spalding collected £3,560 during Warships Week in 1942 and bought HMS Taku for £2,056.
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Talent (i)
HNlMS Zwaardvisch,
Zwaardvis | T3 | P322 | 61 | 01-Jul-43 |
Vickers Armstrong Barrow | 01-Jul-63 | Scrap | Transferred to Netherlands
1943 as Zwaardvisch, then Zwaardvis, 1944. Scrapped Antwerp.
Pictured in the 1950s.
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Talent (iii) | T3 | P337 c/s MVTV | 61 | 01-Feb-45 | Vickers
Armstrong Barrow | 01-Feb-70 | Scrap | Originally Tasman.
(The original replacement for the Talent that became Zwaardvisch
was cancelled). In 1948 whilst returning from the Far East, embarked a
team of scientists from the Admiralty Compass Laboratory and conducted an
innovative gravitational survey of the English Channel. This laid the
groundwork for the subsequent development of the Ships Inertial Navigation
System so essential to modern nuclear powered submarines. 15-Dec-54 swept out of drydock Chatham, 4 lost.
Reconstructed '55. Damaged in collision while dived off Isle of Wight, 8-May-56. Visited by 33,000 people
during a month-long publicity trip around the south and east coasts of England, October 1960. Paid off 1966.
Broken up Troon.
Pictured in late 1950s. |
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