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Dates: 1965 - HMS Turpin (pennant number P354) was a group three T Class submarine of the Royal Navy which entered service in the last few months of World War II. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named Turpin. She was sold to Israel in 1965 and commissioned into the Israeli Sea Corps in 1967 as INS Leviathan Career As HMS Turpin At the end of the war, all surviving Group 1 and Group 2 boats were scrapped, but the group 3 boats (which were of welded rather than riveted construction) were retained and fitted with snort masts. Turpin was sold to the Israeli Navy in 1965, and renamed Leviathan, the Hebrew for whale. As INS Leviathan The submarine was purchased by Israel, along with two of her T-class sisters, in 1965, HMS Truncheon and HMS Totem. She was commissioned into the Israeli Sea Corps in 1967. She was eventually scrapped in 1978.
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