HMS Talent (S92)


HMS Talent is the sixth of seven nuclear submarines of the Royal Navy, and was built at Barrow-in-Furness. Talent was launched by The Princess Royal in April 1988 and commissioned in May 1990. The boat is affiliated with Shrewsbury in Shropshire. Talent is the third submarine of the Royal Navy to bear the name. The first was the World War II Talent, a T-class submarine transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy as RNLMS Zwaardvisch in 1943.
Talent moved her base from Devonport to Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde in July 2019.
Talent is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2021 and will be replaced by one of the new s.

Operational history

Talent undertook a refit at her base port in HMNB Devonport and in March 2007 rejoined the active fleet, following a £386 million upgrade. She has been given a new reactor core and has been equipped with a new sonar suite, Sonar 2076. Sonar 2076 has the power equivalent to approximately 400 PCs and can precisely track the movement of small objects from hundreds of miles away. The Royal Navy describe Sonar 2076 as the most advanced sonar in service with any navy in the world. She has also been given the ability to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles.
On 6 August 2013, she returned to Plymouth after a 3-month deployment. In October 2013, she conducted an anti-submarine exercise with,, and.
In 2009, she suffered loss of primary and alternative power supplies to her nuclear reactors.
She was reported in April 2015 to have struck ice some time in 2014 while tracking Russian vessels.
Talent was spotted in May 2019 with a unique 'wake object detection system' while docking at Gibraltar. Such a device allows the submarine to detect enemy submarines based on the chemicals left by submarine's wakes, radiations traces from nuclear-powered submarines or warming patches of water due to submarine's heat production.