HMS Torbay (S90)

HMS Torbay rounding Calshot Spit, Southampton in November 2010.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Torbay
Namesake	Torbay
Builder	Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down	3 December 1982
Launched	8 March 1985
Sponsored by	Lady Ann Herbert
Commissioned	7 February 1987
Decommissioned	14 July 2017
Homeport	HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Fate	Decommissioned
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General characteristics
Class and type	Trafalgar-class submarine
Displacement	Surfaced: 4,500 to 4,800 t (4,700 long tons; 5,300 short tons)[1] Submerged: 5,200 to 5,300 t (5,200 long tons; 5,800 short tons)[1]
Length	85.4 m (280 ft)[1]
Beam	9.8 m (32 ft)[1]
Draught	9.5 m (31 ft)[1]
Propulsion	1 × Rolls-Royce PWR1 nuclear reactor, HEU 93.5%[2] 2 × GEC steam turbines 2 × WH Allen turbo generators; 3.2 MW 2 × Paxman diesel generators 2,800 shp (2.1 MW) 1 × pump jet propulsor 1 × motor for emergency drive 1 × auxiliary retractable prop
Speed	Over 30 knots (56 km/h), submerged[1]
Range	Unlimited[1]
Complement	130[1]
Electronic warfare & decoys	2 × SSE Mk8 launchers for Type 2066 and Type 2071 torpedo decoys RESM Racal UAP passive intercept CESM Outfit CXA SAWCS decoys carried from 2002
Armament	5 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes with stowage for up to 30 weapons: Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes

HMS Torbay is a decommissioned Trafalgar-class nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy and the fourth vessel of her class. Torbay was the fifth vessel and the second submarine of the Royal Navy to be named after Torbay in Devon, England. The first vessel was the 80-gun second rate HMS Torbay launched in 1693.

She was the first vessel to be fitted with the new command system SMCS-NG.

Torbay was scheduled to be decommissioned in 2015, to be replaced by one of the new Astute-class submarines.^[3] As of November 2013^[update] she was undergoing extended maintenance and upgrades. The work allowed for a two-year life extension beyond the previously-planned decommissioning date. On 6 June 2017, she entered Gibraltar Naval Base flying her paying-off pennant and, on Friday 14 July 2017, the vessel was decommissioned in Devonport.