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27 mar 2024 · The hunter-killer boat HMS Tireless at the North Pole in 2004, during Anglo-US submarine exercises on the roof of the world. This year there was not a single British SSN working alongside American counterparts.
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.
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...
23 kwi 2019 · Despite their unsuitability, non-DDS-fitted nuclear boats have been used to launch SF operations. In 1999 HMS Tireless almost suffered a serious accident when exercising this capability in the Mediterranean. The boat was trimmed down with the casing almost awash.
13 wrz 2000 · The HMS Tireless incident, where a UK nuclear powered submarine was successfully repaired in Gibraltar, raised many issues and concerns. The Government of Gibraltar commissioned a report from a team of experts to advise on the safety and suitability of the repair.
31 lip 2013 · HMS Tireless, one of the Royal Navy's Trafalgar class hunter-killer submarines, has returned to service following a leak of radioactive material into its reactor compartment earlier this year.
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.
