HMS Talent
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Three submarine
s of the British Royal Navy
have been named HMS Talent:
Submarine
A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...
s of the British Royal Navy
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have been named HMS Talent:
- HMS Talent (P322)HMS Talent (P322)HNLMS Zwaardvisch was the lead ship of the Royal Netherlands Navy's , which was based on the British T class. The submarine was originally ordered as HMS Talent and built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and John Brown & Company, Clydebank...
, a T class submarineBritish T class submarineThe Royal Navy's T class of diesel-electric submarines was designed in the 1930s to replace the O, P and R classes. Fifty-three members of the class were built just before and during the Second World War, where they played a major role in the Royal Navy's submarine operations...
transferred to the Royal Netherlands NavyRoyal Netherlands NavyThe Koninklijke Marine is the navy of the Netherlands. In the mid-17th century the Dutch Navy was the most powerful navy in the world and it played an active role in the wars of the Dutch Republic and later those of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
as RNLMS Zwaardvisch in 1943. - HMS Talent was another T class submarine, ordered in 1944, but cancelled in 1945.
- HMS Talent (P337)HMS Talent (P337)HMS Talent was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P337 by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and launched on 13 February 1945...
was another T class submarine, previously named HMS Tasman but renamed shortly before commissioning in 1945. She served until 1966. - HMS Talent (S92)HMS Talent (S92)HMS Talent is the sixth of seven nuclear submarines of the Royal Navy, and was built at Barrow-in-Furness.Talent was launched by The Princess Royal in April 1988 and commissioned in May 1990. She was the last submarine to be launched down a slipway.. The boat is affiliated with Shrewsbury in...
, a Trafalgar class submarineTrafalgar class submarineThe Trafalgar class is a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy. They are a direct follow on from the Swiftsure class and were, until the introduction of the Astute class, the Royal Navy's most advanced nuclear fleet submarines.Seven boats were built and...
launched in 1988 and currently in service.