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HMS Talent (S92)

Talent moored in HMNB Devonport, February 2008.

Career (UK)

Ordered: 10 September 1984

Laid down: 13 May 1986

Launched: 15 April 1988

Sponsored by: The Princess Royal

Commissioned: 12 May 1990

Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth

Fate: in active service, as of 2013[1]

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General characteristics [2]

Class & type: Trafalgar class submarine

Displacement: 4,800 tonnes, surfaced5,300 tonnes, dived

Length: 85.4 m (280 ft)

Beam: 9.8 m (32 ft)

Draught: 9.5 m (31 ft)

Installed power: 15,000 shp (11 MW)

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 2,800 shp (2.1 MW)• 1 x pump jet propulsor[3]</ref>•• 1 x motor for emergency drive•• 1 x auxiliary retractable prop

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Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h) dived

Range: Unlimited, except by food supplies and maintenance requirements.

Complement: 130 (18 officers)

Sensors andprocessing systems:

Ferranti/Gresham Dowty DCB/DCG or BAE Systems SMCS data system, Type 2072 hull-mounted flankarray passive sonar, Plessey Type 2020 or Marconi/Plessey Type 2074 hull-mounted active and passivesearch and attack sonar, Ferranti Type 2046 or TUS 2076 towed array passive search sonar, Thomson SintraType 2019 PARIS or Thorn EMI 2082 passive intercept and ranging sonar, Marconi Type 2077 short rangeactive classification sonar, Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I band navigation radar, Pilkington Optronics CK34search periscope, Pilkington Optronics CH84/CM010 attack periscope

Electronic warfare& decoys:

•• 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: 5 x 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes with stowage for up to 30 weapons;•• Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles•• Spearfish wire-guided heavyweight torpedoes

HMS Talent is the sixth of seven Trafalgar-class nuclear submarines of the Royal Navy, and was built atBarrow-in-Furness.Talent was launched by The Princess Royal in April 1988 and commissioned in May 1990. She was the lastsubmarine to be launched down a slipway.[citation needed]. The boat is affiliated with Shrewsbury in Shropshire.Talent is the third submarine of the Royal Navy to bear the name. The first was the World War II Talent, a T-classsubmarine transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy as RNLMS Zwaardvisch in 1943.Talent is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2019 and will be replaced by one of the new Astute-class submarines.[4]

Operational historyTalent undertook a refit at her base port in HMNB Devonport and in March 2007 rejoined the active fleet, followinga £386 million upgrade. She has been given a new reactor core and has been equipped with a new sonar suite, Sonar2076. Sonar 2076 has the power equivalent to approximately 400 PCs and can precisely track the movement of smallobjects from hundreds of miles away. The Royal Navy describe Sonar 2076 as the most advanced sonar in servicewith any navy in the world. She has also been given the ability to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles.On 6th August 2013, she returned to Plymouth after a 3 month deployment[5]

Gallery

Talent in refit at Devonport Navy Days, 5September 2009.

Talent in refit at Devonport Navy Days, 5September 2009

Talent reactor being refuelled, 5 September2009.

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ReferencesNotes[1] http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ w/ index. php?title=HMS_Talent_(S92)& action=edit[2] http:/ / www. royalnavy. mod. uk/ The-Fleet/ Submarines/ Fleet-Submarines/ Trafalgar-Class[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)

[5] http:/ / www. royalnavy. mod. uk/ News-and-Events/ Latest-News/ 2013/ August/ 06/ 130806-HMS-Talent-returns

References

External links• HMS Talent (http:/ / www. royalnavy. mod. uk/ The-Fleet/ Submarines/ Fleet-Submarines/ Trafalgar-Class/

HMS-Talent)• MaritimeQuest HMS Talent S-92 pages (http:/ / www. maritimequest. com/ warship_directory/ great_britain/

submarines/ pages/ talent_s92_page_1. htm)

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