HMS/m TEMPLAR
Pennant Number: P96 Changed to P316
Built: Vickers, Barrow in Furness
Laid Down: 1941; Commissioned February 1943
Length 273 feet Beam 26.5 feet
Crew 63
Sunk as target 1950, raised and scrapped 1959
Wartime Exploits: January 1944 light cruiser Kitakami was sunk by Templar.in
the Malacca Strait, off Penang.
Members Past and Present who served on Templar:-
John Rae
Picture Displayed by kind permission of Dave Page
(http://www.navyphotos.co.uk)