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{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}{{Use British English|date=March 2017}}{{Infobox ship imageShip image=HMS Taciturn.jpg | Ship caption=HMS Taciturn }}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | United Kingdom|naval}} | Ship name=HMS Taciturn | Ship namesake= | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=*Vickers Armstrong, Barrow | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=9 March 1943 | Ship launched=7 June 1944 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=8 October 1944 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Scrapped August 1971 | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge= }}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=British T class submarine | Ship type= | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement=*1,290 tons surfaced | Ship tons burthen= | 276|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | 25|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 12|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} forward- {{convert|14|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on}} aft
| Ship draft= | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship ramps= | Ship ice class= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=*Two shafts- Twin diesel engines 2,500 hp (1.86 MW) each
- Twin electric motors 1,450 hp (1.08 MW) each
| Ship sail plan= | Ship speed=*15.5 knots (28.7 km/h) surfaced- 9 knots (20 km/h) submerged
| Ship range=4,500 nautical miles at 11 knots (8,330 km at 20 km/h) surfaced | Ship endurance= | 300|ft|m|abbr=on}} max | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship troops= | Ship complement=61 | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*6 internal forward-facing 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes- 2 external forward-facing torpedo tubes
- 2 external amidships rear-facing torpedo tubes
- 1 external rear-facing torpedo tubes
- 6 reload torpedoes
- QF 4 inch (100 mm) deck gun
- 3 anti aircraft machine guns
| Ship armour= | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft= | Ship aircraft facilities= | Ship notes= }} | HMS Taciturn was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and Belliss 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. ServiceTaciturn 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 {{HNLMS|K XVIII||2}}), 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.[1] She later was refloated with the aid of the boom defence vessel {{HMS|Barcombe|Z16|6}}.[2] Taciturn was sold to Thos W Ward and scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales on 8 August 1971.[3]References1. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Picture Gallery |day_of_week=Friday |date=10 January 1958 |page_number=5 |issue=54045 |column=C-D }} 2. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Warship Found Badly Holed |day_of_week=Wednesday |date=15 January 1958 |page_number=8 |issue=54509 |column=G }} 3. ^HMS Taciturn, Uboat.net
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- {{cite book | last = Hutchinson | first = Robert | title = Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day | year = 2001 | location = London | publisher = HarperCollins | isbn = 978-0-00-710558-8 | oclc = 53783010 }}
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