HMS ''Taciturn'' was a British
submarine
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of the third group of the
''T'' class. built by
Vickers Armstrong,
Barrow
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and launched on 7 June 1944. So far she has been the only ship of the
Royal Navy to bear the name ''Taciturn''.
Service
''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 ), 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.
On 9 January 1958, ''Taciturn'' ran aground in the
Firth of Clyde. She later was refloated with the aid of the
boom defence vessel
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''Taciturn'' was sold to
Thos. W. Ward and scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales on 8 August 1971.
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British T-class submarines of the Royal Navy
Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness
1944 ships
World War II submarines of the United Kingdom
Cold War submarines of the United Kingdom
Maritime incidents in 1958