The Trafalgar class was a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines (SSNs) in service with the Royal Navy, and the successor to the Swiftsure class. Like the majority of Royal Navy nuclear submarines, all seven boats were constructed at Barrow-in-Furness shipyard, Cumbria.

Trafalgar-class is a fleet of nuclear-powered attack submarines operated by the UK Royal Navy, offering stealth, endurance, and versatile mission capabilities including anti-ship, anti-submarine warfare, and strategic land-attack missions.

Designed to hunt out and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships, the Trafalgar Class have gradually been adapted to perform other roles, including covert surveillance and inshore reconnaissance.

The Trafalgar Class submarine is armed with Raytheon Tomahawk Block IV land-attack cruise missiles (TLAM). The missile is fired from 533mm torpedo tubes. The Tomahawk missile has a range of up to 1,600km and a maximum speed of 885km/h (550mi/h).

The Trafalgar-class is a class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in service with the Royal Navy, the successor to the Swiftsure Class. Trafalgar Class submarines - Trafalgar, Turbulent, Tireless, Torbay, Trenchant, Talent and Triumph.

2024年12月3日 · The Trafalgar class is the last cold war British Royal Navy nuclear-powered fleet submarines (SSNs), successor to the Swiftsure class. They were constructed at Barrow-in-Furness shipyard in Cumbria between 1979 and 1991 and were succeeded by the current Astute class (7 boats built 2001-2026).

HMS Trafalgar is a decommissioned Trafalgar-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Unlike the rest of the Trafalgar-class boats that followed, she was not launched with a pump-jet propulsion system, but with a conventional 7-bladed propeller. [3] Trafalgar was the fifth vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name, after the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar.

2022年8月5日 · Designed in the 1970’s as a refinement of the previous Swiftsure class submarines the Trafalgar class became the last class of SSN to see duty during the cold war. These submarines would eventually become the back bone of the Royal Navy SSN fleet after the withdrawal of the Swiftsure class.

HMS Triumph is the latest and most capable of the Trafalgar Class submarines. Equipped with cruise missiles and Spearfish torpedoes, this versatile sub can stay at sea unsupported for up to three months. HMS Triumph is a nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine.

2024年12月16日 · The seventh and final submarine of the Trafalgar class, HMS Triumph, has returned to its homeport at Devonport Naval Base in Plymouth for the last time before decommissioning. After completing its final voyage from Scotland, where submariners bid farewell to the long-serving vessel at Clyde Naval Base, Triumph arrived in Plymouth last week.