| Navy | The Royal Dutch Navy |
| Type | Submarine |
| Class | T |
| Pennant | P 322 |
| Built by | Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) : John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 13 Oct 1942 |
| Launched | 17 Jul 1943 |
| Commissioned | 23 Nov 1943 |
| End service | 11 Dec 1962 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy before completion on 23 March 1943.
Zwaardvisch was renamed Zwaardvis in 1950. Decommissioned on 11 December 1962. Sold to be broken up for scrap on 12 July 1963. For a detailed account on HrMs Zwaardvisch service see this website (offsite link). Commanding Officers: Lt. Jan van Dapperen |
| Former name | HMS Talent |
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Noteable events involving Zwaardvisch include:
18 Aug 1944
HrMs Zwaardvisch (Lt.Cdr. H.A.W. Goossens) sinks the sailing vessel Kim Hup Soen (48 GRT) with gunfire in the Malacca Strait in position 04º00'N, 99º32'E.
(see map)
19 Aug 1944
HrMs Zwaardvisch (Lt.Cdr. H.A.W. Goossens) sinks two sailing vessels with gunfire in the Malacca Strait in position 04º30'N, 98º15'E. (see map)
21 Aug 1944
HrMs Zwaardvisch (Lt.Cdr. H.A.W. Goossens) sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire in the Malacca Strait in position 04º15'N, 99º14'E. (see map)
6 Oct 1944
The German submarine U-168 was sunk at 0130hrs on 6 October 1944 in the Java Sea, in position 06º20'S, 111º28'E, by a torpedo from the Dutch submarine HrMs Zwaardvisch (Lt.Cdr. H.A.W. Goossens). (see map)
10 Oct 1944
HrMs Zwaardvisch (Lt.Cdr. H.A.W. Goossens) sinks the Japanese guardboat Koei Maru (19 GRT) with gunfire southwest of Bawean Island in position 05º57'S, 112º29'E.
(see map)
15 Oct 1944
HrMs Zwaardvisch (Lt.Cdr. H.A.W. Goossens) sinks the Japanese oceanographic research vessel Kaiyo Maru No.2 (143 GRT) with gunfire off Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies in position 06º30'S, 111º35'E. (see map)
17 Oct 1944
HrMs Zwaardvisch (Lt.Cdr. H.A.W. Goossens) torpedoes and sinks the Japanese minelayer Itsukushima (1970tons, offsite link) and torpedoes and damages the Japanese minelayer Wakataka (1608 tons) in the Java Sea off Bawean Island in position 05º26'S, 113º48'E. (see map)
25 Apr 1945
HrMs Zwaardvisch (Lt. J. van Dapperen) sinks two Malaysian sailing vessels with scuttling charges off Soerabaya, Netherlands East Indies.