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 | | It was a T -class boat, Tantalus, which undertook the longest patrol of any British submarine during the war, some 55 days and 44,629 miles, during January and February of 1945. |
 | | With the growing Soviet submarine threat to counter, the class was given a pre-emptive, anti-submarine brief in which silence was essential, lending itself to substantial conversion work. |
 | | The T - class was then streamlined and thus gained something its admirers had long wanted it to have but which it had hitherto lacked - speed. |
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