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sister-ship HMS Tireless 1956 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate	Modification
Zwaardvis (ex-Talent)	P322, O29, O3, S814	805	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK	3/1943	17.7.1943	12.1943	stricken 12.1962	riveted pressure hull
Zeehond (ex-Tapir)	O31, O5, S813	871	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK	3.1943	21.8.1944	12.1944 // 6.1948	to United Kingdom 6.1953 (Tapir)	welded pressure hull
Tijgerhaai (ex-Tarn)	P336, O28, O2, S812	843	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK	6/1943	29.11.1944	4.1945	stricken 9.1965	welded pressure hull

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1090
Displacement normal, t	1319 - 1327 / 1571
Length, m	83.3 - 83.4
Breadth, m	8.10
Draught, m	4.47 - 4.52
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Vickers diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	2500 / 1450
Max speed, kts	15.25 / 9
Fuel, t	Zwaardvis, Zeehond: diesel oil 129 - 132, maximally 215 - 218 Tijgerhaai: diesel oil 129 - 132
Endurance, nm(kts)	Zwaardvis, Zeehond: 11000(10) / Tijgerhaai: 8000(10) /
Armament	Zwaardvis: 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk XII, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 11 - 533 TT (6 bow, 2 ext bow, 3 ext stern, 17 torpedoes or 12 М2 mines) Tijgerhaai: 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk XXII, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV, 11 - 533 TT (6 bow, 2 ext bow, 3 ext stern, 17 torpedoes or 12 M2 mines) Zeehond: 1 x 1 - 102/40 S I, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk IIA S/M, 11 - 533 TT (6 bow, 2 ext bow, 3 ext stern, 17 torpedoes or 12 M2 mines)
Electronic equipment	type 286PW or type 267W radar, type 129, type 138 sonars
Complement	61
Diving depth operational, m	Zwaardvis: 95 Zeehond, Tijgerhaai: 110

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Project history

British T-class (3rd group) submarines, transferred to Dutch Navy even before completion. Under reached arrangement, it was planned to transfer three submarines of the given class, but finally only two were transferred, and instead of the third 2 submarines of U class were offered. Two another submarines of "T" class (2nd and 3rd series) were delivered in 1948 but soon in 1953 returned to UK. Zeehond was equipped by a snorkel

Modernizations

1961, Tijgerhaai: - 5 - 533 TT (2 ext bow, 3 ext stern), 12 torpedoes at all.

Naval service

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.