Name HMS Thorough Commissioned 1 March 1944 Construction started 26 October 1942 Length 84 m | Laid down 26 October 1942 Fate Scrapped June 1962 Launched 30 October 1943 Builder Vickers-Armstrongs | |
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Class and type British T class submarine Displacement 1,290 tons surfaced
1,560 tons submerged | ||
HMS Thorough was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P324 by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and launched on 30 October 1943. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Thorough.
Service
Thorough served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank twenty seven Japanese sailing vessels, seven coasters, a small Japanese vessel, a Japanese barge, a small Japanese gunboat, a Japanese trawler, and the Malaysian sailing vessel Palange. In August 1945, in company with HMS Taciturn, she attacked Japanese shipping and shore targets off northern Bali. Thorough sank a Japanese coaster and a sailing vessel with gunfire.
16 December 1957 HMS Thorough returned to HMS Dolphin, Portsmouth Dockyard, after first circumnavigation by a submarine.
She survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, finally being scrapped at Dunston on Tyne on 29 June 1962.