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HMS Tireless was the third Trafalgar-class nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy. Tireless is the second submarine of the Royal Navy to bear this name.Launched in March 1984, Tireless was sponsored by Sue Squires, wife of Admiral 'Tubby' Squires, and commissioned in October 1985.. During the Cold War Tireless was primarily involved in anti-submarine warfare patrols in the Atlantic Ocean. [5]
For 17 hours, HMS Tireless was on top of the world - and the memories will linger long in the minds of the sailors who experienced it. The hunter-killer submarine became the first British boat to visit the North Pole for eight years after surfacing with American nuclear submarine USS Hampton at the Earth's most northerly point.
24 mar 2009 · Devonport-based HMS Tireless, a hunter-killer class sub, was sailing under the ice pack 170 miles north of Deadhorse, in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, when the accident happened. The two mechanics...
Submarines from the class have seen service in a wide range of locations, and have fired missiles at targets in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. HMS Torbay, Trenchant, Talent, and Triumph have been fitted with the Sonar 2076 system, which the Royal Navy describes as the most advanced sonar in service with any navy in the world.
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19 cze 2014 · HMS Tireless joins 11 other former navy nuclear submarines which are waiting to be dismantled at Devonport while the government searches for a site to dispose of their radioactive reactors.
HMS Tireless, a Trafalgar-class boat equipped with Tomahawk missiles, arrived in Gibraltar last May with a crack in her reactor's cooling system and leaking a small amount of contaminated water...
