Vanguard class submarine
Career (UK)
Ordered:	30 May 1986
Laid down:	3 September 1986
Launched:	4 March 1992
Commissioned:	14 August 1993
Status:	active in service
Homeport:	HMNB Clyde
General Characteristics
Displacement:	Dived: 15,680 tons
Length:	149.9 m
Beam:	12.8 m
Draught:	12 m
Propulsion and power:	1 × Rolls-Royce PWR2 nuclear reactor 2 × GEC turbines 1 × shaft pump jet  27,500 hp (20.5 MW) 2 × auxiliary retractable propulsion motors 2 × W H Allen turbo generators  6 MW 2 × Paxman diesel alternators  2 × 2,700 hp (20.5 MW)
Speed:	Dived: 25 knots (46 km/h)
Range:	Essentially unlimited
Complement:	14 officers 121 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems:	BAE Systems SCMS Thales Underwater Systems Type 2054 composite sonar suite comprising:  Type 2046 towed array sonar  Type 2043 hull-mounted active and passive search sonar  Type 2082 passive intercept and ranging sonar 1 × Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I band navigation radar 1 × Pilkington Optronics CK51 search periscope 1 × Pilkington Optronics CH91 attack periscope
Electronic warfare and decoys:	Thales UPM intercept ESM 2 × Mk10 launchers for launching Type 2066 and Type 2071 decoys
Armament:	4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 16 × ballistic missile tubes Spearfish torpedoes 16 × Lockheed Trident D5 SLBMs carrying up to 192 warheads

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In February 2002, Vanguard began a two-year refit at HMNB Devonport. The refit was completed in June 2004 and in October 2005 Vanguard completed her return to service trials (Demonstration and Shakedown Operations) with the firing of an unarmed Trident missile. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Devonport in 1909, courtesy WW1 Archive Devonport Dockyard and the Hamoaze from the Rame Peninsula, Cornwall Her Majestys Naval Base (HMNB) Devonport (HMS Drake), commonly called Devonport Dockyard, is a major Royal Navy base located in Devonport, in the west of the city of Plymouth in Devon. ...

General Characteristics

• Displacement: 16,000 tons submerged
• Propulsion: Rolls-Royce PWR2 reactor, two GEC turbines, single shaft, pump jet propulsor
• Electrical Power: two Paxman diesel generators, two WH Allen turbogenerators
• Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h) submerged
• Complement: 14 officers, 121 men
• Strategic Armament: 16 Lockheed Trident II D5 ballistic missiles
• Defensive Armament: four 533 mm (21-inch) torpedo tubes, Spearfish torpedoes

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