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HMS Thermopylae (P355)

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Laid down
  
26 October 1943

Fate
  
Scrapped, August 1970

Beam
  
25 ft 6 in (7.77 m)

Launched
  
27 June 1945

Builder
  
Chatham Dockyard

Commissioned
  
5 December 1945

Class and type
  
T class submarine

Construction started
  
26 October 1943

Length
  
84 m

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Displacement
  
1,290 tons surfaced 1,560 tons submerged

HMS Thermopylae (P355) was a T-class submarine of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy laid down on 26 October 1943 at Chatham Dockyard, and launched on 27 June 1945. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Thermopylae, after the Battle of Thermopylae.

Commissioned after the end of the Second World War, she had a relatively quiet career. She immediately joined the 3rd Flotilla based in the Holy Loch. On 15 January 1950 she ran aground on Stevenson Rock, off Skerryvore, Inner Hebrides. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

She remained in service until December 1968 when she was put on the sale list. She was broken up at Troon during 1971.

Publications

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475. 
  • Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8. OCLC 53783010. 

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