HMS Turbulent (S87)

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Career (UK)	Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg <tr valign=top><td>Ordered:</td><td>July 28 1978</td></tr>
Image:HMS Turbulent S87.jpg HMS Turbulent (S87)
Laid down:	May 8 1980
Launched:	December 1 1982 <tr valign=top><td>Commissioned:</td><td>April 28 1984</td></tr>
Status:	active in service
General Characteristics
Displacement:	Surfaced: 4,740 tons Dived: 5,208 tons
Length:	280.1 ft (85.4 m)
Beam:	32.1 ft (9.8 m) <tr valign=top><td>Draught:</td><td>31.2 ft (9.5 m)</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Propulsion:</td><td>Rolls-Royce PWR1 nuclear reactor 2 × GEC turbines 1 × shaft pump jet 15,000 hp (11 MW) motor for emergency drive emergency retractable propellor 2 × W H Allen turbo generators 2 MW 2 × Paxman diesel alternators 2,800 hp (2.1 MW)</td></tr>
Speed:	Dived: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement:	18 officers 112 enlisted <tr valign=top><td>Sensors and processing systems:</td><td>Ferranti/Gresham Dowty DCB/DCG Type 2072 hull-mounted flank array passive sonar Plessey Type 2020 or Marconi/Plessey Type 2074 hull-mounted active and passive search and attack sonar Ferranti Type 2046 towed array passive search sonar Thomson Sintra Type 2019 PARIS or Thorn EMI 2082 passive intercept and ranging sonar Marconi Type 2077 short range active classification sonar Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I band navigation radar Pilkington Optronics CK34 search periscope Pilkington Optronics CH84/CM010 attack periscope BAE Systems SMCS from 1997 Type 2074 sonar from 1997</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Electronic warfare and decoys:</td><td>2 × SSE Mk8 launchers for Type 2066 and Type 2071 torpedo decoys RESM Racal UAP passive intercept CESM Outfit CXA SAWCS decoys from 2002</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Armament:</td><td>5 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes Spearfish torpedoes (originally Tigerfish torpedoes) with 20 reloads UGM-84 Harpoon submarine-launched cruise missile Mines Spearfish from 1997 UGM-109 Tomahawk from 2002</td></tr>

HMS Turbulent (S87) is a Trafalgar-class submarine of the Royal Navy.

See HMS Turbulent for other ships of the same name.

On April 16, 2003, HMS Turbulent, the first Royal Navy vessel to return home from the war against Iraq, arrived in Plymouth flying the Jolly Roger after launching thirty Tomahawk cruise missiles.

HMS Turbulent is set to be decommissioned in 2011.

Trafalgar-class submarine