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Hms Trafalgar (S107) | colspan="2"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"|Career | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"|RN Ensign | | rdered: | April 7, 1977 | | aid down: | April 15, 1979 | | aunched: | July 1, 1981 | | ommissioned: | May 27, 1983 | | ecommissioned: | | | ate: | | | truck: | | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 5,200 tonnes dived | | ength: | 85.4 m | | eam: | 9.8 m | | raught: | 9.5.m | | ropulsion: | One Rolls-Royce PWR1 nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one shaft, 15,000 shp (11 MW) | | peed: | 20 knots (37 km/h) surfaced 30 knots (56 km/h) submerged | | ange: | | | omplement: | 130 | | rmament: | 5 tubes capable of firing:
Spearfish Torpedoes
RN Sub Harpoon Missiles
Tomahawk Missiles ` | | otto: | HMS Trafalgar (S107) is a Trafalgar-class submarine of the Royal Navy. 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.http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/content_objectid=14033658_method=full_siteid=89488_headline=--pound-5M-CRASH-SKIPPERS-WERE-SUB-STANDARD-name_page.html See HMS Trafalgar for other ships of the same name. Trafalgar
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