HMS Talent was a British

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 submarine

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 of the third group of the T class

British T class submarine

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. She was built as P337 by Vickers Armstrong

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, Barrow

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, and launched on 13 February 1945. She was originally to have been named HMS Tasman, but was this was changed to Talent after the previous HMS Talent

HMS Talent (P322)

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 was transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy

Royal Netherlands Navy

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.

Service

Talent saw little action, but still had an eventful career. On 15 December 1954 she was swept out of drydock at Chatham Dockyard when the dock gate lifted. Thick fog, night-fall and high tides hampered the search and rescue operations. She was not found until next day when it became clear that the accident had claimed four lives. She was reconstructed in 1955. She was then damaged in a collision while dived off the Isle of Wight

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 on 8 May 1956. Talent was later used for a month-long publicity trip around the south and east coasts of England in October 1960, when she was visited by over 33,000 people.

She was refitted at Malta

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 between late 1960 and early 1961, and was thereafter active in the Mediterranean. She returned to the UK in May 1962 and was decommissioned in 1966. She was finally scrapped at Troon, Scotland on 1 February 1970.