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HMS Trafalgar (S107)
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Image:HMS Trafalgar s107.jpg 300px|HMS ''Trafalgar'', pictured during Tomahawk missile trials
|Ship caption=HMS ''Trafalgar'', pictured during
Tomahawk missile trials
|Ship country=(UK)
|Ship flag=
Image:RN-White-Ensign.svg 60px|Royal Navy Ensign
|Ship ordered=
April 7 1977
|Ship laid down=
April 15 1979
|Ship launched=
July 1 1981
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|Ship commissioned=
May 27 1983
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|Ship displacement={{Ship displacement box Trafalgar class submarine}}
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|Ship beam={{Ship beam box Trafalgar class submarine}}
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BAE Systems SMCS from
1995
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SAWCS decoys carried from
2002
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'''HMS ''Trafalgar'' (S107)''' is a
Trafalgar class submarine ''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.[http://www.btinternet.com/~warship/News/afghan9.htm]
In November
2002, ''Trafalgar'' ran aground close to
Isle of Skye 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]
HMS ''Trafalgar'' is set to be decommissioned in 2008.
See
HMS Trafalgar HMS ''Trafalgar'' for other ships of the same name.
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Category:Royal Navy submarines Trafalgar
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