HMS Taciturn (P314)

HMS "Taciturn" was a British submarine of the third group of the "T" class. She was built as "P314" by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and Bellis and Morcom Ltd., and launched on 7 June 1944. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name "Taciturn". This due to the silence it possessed as it trekked under the surface of the water.

ervice

"Taciturn" served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank a Japanese air warning picket hulk (this was the hulk of the salvaged former Dutch submarine "K XVIII"), the Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser "Cha 105", and a Japanese sailing vessel. On 1 August 1945, "Taciturn", in company with HMS "Thorough", attacked Japanese shipping and shore targets off northern Bali. "Taciturn" sank two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire.

She survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, becoming the first ship of the class to undergo the 'Super T' conversion. She was finally scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales on 8 August 1971. [ [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3529.html HMS Taciturn] , Uboot.net]

References

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