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Name: Ordered: Laid down: Launched: Sponsored by: Commissioned: Homeport: Identification: Fate: Badge: HMS Tireless 5 July 1979 6 June 1981 17 March 1984 Sue Squires 5 October 1985 HMNB Devonport, Plymouth Pennant number: S88 in active service, as of 2013[1]
Propulsion:
1 x Rolls Royce PWR1 nuclear reactor 2 x GEC steam turbines 2 x WH Allen turbo generators; 3.2 MW 2 x Paxman diesel alternators 2,800shp (2.1MW) [3] 1 x pump jet propulsor </ref> 1 x motor for emergency drive 1 x auxiliary retractable prop
32 knots (59km/h) dived Unlimited, except by food supplies and maintenance requirements. 130 (18 officers) Ferranti/Gresham Dowty DCB/DCG or BAE Systems SMCS data system, Type 2072 hull-mounted flank array passive sonar, Plessey Type 2020 or Marconi/Plessey Type 2074 hull-mounted active and passive search and attack sonar, Ferranti Type 2046 or TUS 2076 towed array passive search sonar, Thomson Sintra Type 2019 PARIS or Thorn EMI 2082 passive intercept and ranging sonar, Marconi Type 2077 short range active classification sonar, Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I band navigation radar, Pilkington Optronics CK34 search periscope, Pilkington Optronics CH84/CM010 attack periscope
2 SSE Mk 8 launchers for Type 2066 and Type 2071 torpedo decoys RESM Racal UAP passive intercept CESM Outfit CXA SAWCS decoys carried from 2002
Armament:
HMS Tireless is a Trafalgar-class nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy and is the third vessel of her class. Tireless is the second submarine of the Royal Navy to bear this name. She was launched in March 1984, sponsored by Sue Squires, wife of Admiral 'Tubby' Squires, and commissioned in October 1985. Tireless is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2013 and will be replaced by one of the new Astute class submarines.[4]
Operational history
From commissioning in 1985, over the next six years Tireless completed numerous exercises and visits around the world, including a trip to the Arctic in 1991. In early 1996, she entered refit and returned to sea in 1999.
2010-2011 deployment
From 9 July 2010 to 12 May 2011 Tireless undertook a ten month deployment, spending 253 days at sea, the longest conducted by a Royal Navy submarine in ten years.[] During the deployment the boat passed through the Suez Canal for the first time, provided protection for the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle launching aircraft over Afghanistan, and called into the ports of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, Goa in India and Souda Bay in Crete. She was also involved in a multi-nation anti-submarine exercise in the Gulf of Oman which saw the Australian frigate HMAS Melbourne and the French frigate FS Dupleix attempt to hunt Tireless down.[][8]
References
Notes
[1] http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ w/ index. php?title=HMS_Tireless_(S88)& action=edit [3] All boats have a pump jet propulsor with the exception of Trafalgar which was fitted with a 7-bladed conventional propeller.<ref>Graham, Ian, Attack Submarine, Gloucester Publishing, Oct 1989, page 12. ISBN 978-0-531-17156-1 [4] Hansard HL Deb 14 March 2005 vol 670 c116WA (http:/ / hansard. millbanksystems. com/ written_answers/ 2005/ mar/ 14/ royal-navy-trafalgar-class-submarines) quoted in House of Commons Defence Committee - Fourth Report, 12 Dec 2006 (http:/ / www. publications. parliament. uk/ pa/ cm200607/ cmselect/ cmdfence/ 59/ 5905. htm) [7] El 'Tireless' llega a la base naval de Gibraltar pese a las reiteradas protestas del Gobierno espaol (http:/ / www. elmundo. es/ elmundo/ 2004/ 07/ 09/ espana/ 1089361259. html), en diario El Mundo (spanish) [11] http:/ / www. dailymail. co. uk/ news/ article-2402119/ British-nuclear-submarine-surfaces-Gibraltar-row-Spain-heats-up. html [12] http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ news/ world-us-canada-23849386
References
External links
Media related to HMS Tireless (S88) at Wikimedia Commons HMS Tireless Official Web Site (http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/The-Fleet/Submarines/Fleet-Submarines/ Trafalgar-Class/HMS-Tireless) MaritimeQuest HMS Tireless S-88 pages (http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/great_britain/ submarines/pages/tireless_s88_page_1.htm)
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