HMS Templar (P316)

HMS "Templar" was a British submarine of the third group of the "T" class. She was built as "P316" by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and launched on 26 October 1942. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name "Templar", probably after the chivalric order, the Knights Templar.

ervice

"Templar" served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank the Japanese merchant cargo ship "Tyokai Maru" and laid mines. She torpedoed and damaged the Japanese light cruiser "Kitakami", and attacked the German submarine "U-1062" but missed her with torpedoes.

She survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, finally being used as a target and sunk in Loch Striven, Scotland in 1954. She was salvaged on 4 December 1958 and arrived at Troon, Scotland on 19 July 1959 to be scrapped. [ [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3509.html HMS Templar] , Uboot.net]

References

*"Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day", by Robert Hutchinson
*Colledge