HMS Truculent (P315) HMS Truculent (P315) HMS "Truculent" was a British submarine of the third group of the "T" class. She was built as "P315" by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and launched on 12 September 1942. "Truculent" was lost following a post-war accident with a Swedish oil tanker in the Thames Estuary in January 1950. "Truculent" spent much of her World War II wartime service in the Pacific Far East, except for a period in early 1943, operating in home waters. Here, she sank the German submarine U-308, which was on her first war patrol, with all hands. She also took part in Operation
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