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HMS Trusty (N45)

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Name
  
HMS Trusty

Commissioned
  
30 July 1941

Launched
  
14 March 1941

Draft
  
4.97 m

Laid down
  
15 March 1940

Construction started
  
15 March 1940

Length
  
84 m

Builder
  
Vickers-Armstrongs

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Fate
  
sold for breaking up January 1947

Class and type
  
British T class submarine

Displacement
  
1,090 tons surfaced 1,575 tons submerged

HMS Trusty (N45) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched in March 1941.

Career

Trusty served in the Mediterranean and in the Pacific Far East. She sank the Italian merchant Eridano in December 1941, and on reassigning to the Pacific, she sank the Japanese merchant cargo ship Toyohashi Maru and damaged the Japanese troop transport Columbia Maru.

She survived the war and was sold to be broken up for scrap in January 1947. She was scrapped at Milford Haven in July 1947.

References

HMS Trusty (N45) Wikipedia