HMS Trafalgar (S107)

HMS Trafalgar, pictured during Tomahawk missile trials
Career (UK)	<tr valign=top><td>Ordered:</td><td>April 7 1977</td></tr>
Laid down:	April 15 1979
Launched:	July 1 1981 <tr valign=top><td>Commissioned:</td><td>May 27 1983</td></tr>
Status:	active in service
General Characteristics
Displacement:	Surfaced: 4,740 tons Dived: 5,208 tons
Length:	280.1 ft (85.4 m)
Beam:	32.1 ft (9.8 m) <tr valign=top><td>Draught:</td><td>31.2 ft (9.5 m)</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Propulsion:</td><td>Rolls-Royce PWR1 nuclear reactor 2 × GEC turbines 1 × shaft pump jet 15,000 hp (11 MW) motor for emergency drive emergency retractable propellor 2 × W H Allen turbo generators 2 MW 2 × Paxman diesel alternators 2,800 hp (2.1 MW)</td></tr>
Speed:	Dived: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement:	18 officers 112 enlisted <tr valign=top><td>Sensors and processing systems:</td><td>Ferranti/Gresham Dowty DCB/DCG Type 2072 hull-mounted flank array passive sonar Plessey Type 2020 or Marconi/Plessey Type 2074 hull-mounted active and passive search and attack sonar Ferranti Type 2046 towed array passive search sonar Thomson Sintra Type 2019 PARIS or Thorn EMI 2082 passive intercept and ranging sonar Marconi Type 2077 short range active classification sonar Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I band navigation radar Pilkington Optronics CK34 search periscope Pilkington Optronics CH84/CM010 attack periscope BAE Systems SMCS from 1995</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Electronic warfare and decoys:</td><td>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</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Armament:</td><td>5 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes Spearfish torpedoes (originally Tigerfish torpedoes) with 20 reloads UGM-84 Harpoon submarine-launched cruise missile Mines SAWCS decoys carried from 2002</td></tr>

HMS Trafalgar (S107) is a Trafalgar-class submarine of the Royal Navy.

After Operation Veritas, the attack on Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces following the 9/11 attacks in the United States, Trafalgar entered Plymouth Sound flying the Jolly Roger on March 1 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.[1]

In November 2002, Trafalgar ran aground close to Skye, causing £5 million worth of damage to her hull and injuring three sailors. She was traveling 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.[2]

HMS Trafalgar is set to be decommissioned in 2008.

HMS Trafalgar is referenced in Tom Clancy's World War III Thriller, Red Storm Rising, where it is mention as being sunk whilst scouting Soviet-held waters.

See HMS Trafalgar for other ships of the same name.

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