HMS Trafalgar S-107

Scale 1:350 Brand Airfix (Score 5/10)

Scale 1:700 Brand Inizio (Kit score 5/10)

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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. Trafalgar was the fifth vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name, after the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar.

n 2012 a Royal Navy submariner was jailed for 8 years for trying "to pass secrets to the Russians that could have undermined Britain's national security"; One element of this was information on "a secret operation undertaken by HMS Trafalgar."

After Operation Veritas, the attack on Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces following the September 11 attacks in the United States, Trafalgar entered Plymouth Sound flying the Jolly Roger on 1 March 2002. She was welcomed back by Admiral Sir Alan West, Commander-in-Chief of the fleet and it emerged she was the first Royal Navy submarine to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles against Afghanistan.

In July 1996, Trafalgar grounded near the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

In November 2002, Trafalgar again ran aground close to the Isle of Skye, causing £5 million worth of damage to her hull and injuring three sailors. She was travelling 50 metres below the surface at more than 14 knots when Lieutenant-Commander Tim Green, a student in the "Perisher" course for new submarine commanders, ordered a course change that took her onto the rocks at Fladda-chuain, a small but well-charted islet. Commander Robert Fancy, responsible for navigation, and Commander Ian McGhie, an instructor, both pleaded guilty at court-martial to contributing to the accident. On 9 March 2004 the court reprimanded both for negligence. Green was not prosecuted, but received an administrative censure.

In May 2008 it was reported that the crash was caused by the chart being used in the exercise being covered with tracing paper, to prevent students marking it.

Trafalgar was decommissioned on 4 December 2009 at Devonport.

Class and type: Trafalgar-class submarine

Displacement:

Surfaced: 4,500 to 4,800 t (4,700 long tons; 5,300 short tons)

Submerged: 5,200 to 5,300 t (5,200 long tons; 5,800 short tons)

Length: 85.4 m (280 ft)

Beam: 9.8 m (32 ft)

Draught: 9.5 m (31 ft)

Propulsion:

1 × Rolls Royce PWR1 nuclear reactor

2 × GEC steam turbines

2 × WH Allen turbo generators; 3.2 MW

2 × Paxman diesel alternators 2,800 shp (2.1 MW)

Speed: Over 30 knots (56 km/h), submerged

Range: Unlimited

Complement: 130

Electronic warfare

& decoys:

2 × SSE Mk8 launchers for Type 2066 and Type 2071 torpedo decoys

RESM Racal UAP passive intercept

CESM Outfit CXA

SAWCS decoys carried from 2002

Armament:

5 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes with stowage for up to 30 weapons:

Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles

Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes