| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Submarine |
| Class | T |
| Pennant | P 314 |
| Built by | Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 13 Nov 1941 |
| Launched | 29 Jul 1942 |
| Commissioned | 29 Nov 1942 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
| History | Scrapped at Newport on 6 December 1963. Commanding Officers: Lt. Charles Philip Bowers, RN Lt.Cdr. Norman Limbury Auchinleck Jewell, MBE, DSC, RN Lt. William Henry Kett, DSC, RNR |
Commands listed for HMS Tactician (P 314)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt.Cdr. Edward Arthur Woodward, DSO, RN | ca aug 42 | 12 Dec 1942 |
| 2 | Lt.Cdr. Anthony Foster Collett, DSC, RN | 12 Dec 1942 | 1 Oct 1944 |
| 3 | Lt. Charles Philip Bowers, RN | 1 Oct 1944 | 15 Nov 1944 |
| 4 | Lt.Cdr. Norman Limbury Auchinleck Jewell, DSC, RN | 15 Nov 1944 | 25 Jun 1945 |
| 5 | Lt. William Henry Kett, DSC, RNR | 18 Jun 1945 | 9 Nov 1945 |
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Noteable events involving Tactician include:
5 May 1943
HMS Tactician (Lt.Cdr. A.F. Collett, DSC, RN) sinks the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V17 / Pia (385 GRT) with gunfire about 10 nautical miles west of Grosseto, Italy in position 42º34'N, 10º45'E. (see map)
12 Jun 1943
HMS Tactician (Lt.Cdr. A.F. Collett, DSC, RN) sinks the Italian schooner Bice (1459 GRT, built 1902) with gunfire 5 nautical miles north-east of the Bari lighthouse.
At 1220 hours (no time zone given in patrol report) Tactician surfaced and engaged a large schooner with gunfire from 2200 yards. The schooner was escorted by an armed vessel that was approximately 4500 yards away.
The first round was fired only 24 seconds after Tactician passed 10 feet. The fourth and fifth round were a hits on the schooners hull. The crew of the schooner abandoned ship.
About 5 minutes into the action the armed vessel opened fire on Tactician which now shifted target. Several hits were obtained on this vessel with one of the hits knocking out it's gun. The enemy vessel eventually fled towards Bari harbour.
Target was now shifted back to the schooner again that soon started to settle after several more hits.
At 1234 hours Tactician was taken under fire by shore batteries forcing Lt.Cdr. Collett to dive and break off the action.
At 1320 hours 23 depth charges were dropped but these caused no damage.
14 Jun 1943
HMS Tactician (Lt.Cdr. A.F. Collett, DSC, RN) torpedoes and damages the Italian merchant Rosandra (8035 GRT) off the coast of Albania in position 40º14'N, 19º28'E. The ship sinks the following day.
At 1610 hours (no time zone given in patrol report), while Tactician was in position 15 nautical miles bearing 155 Cape Linguetta, a northbound merchant vessel of 7600 tons was sighted clore inshore.
Four torpedoes were fired when range was closed to 2200 yards. Although no escort was seen during the setup of the attack there was one that closed Tactician and forced her deep shortly after firing the torpedoes.
Before the last torpedo exploded a depth charge was dropped that was very close. Within 10 minutes 16 more depth charges were dropped with three of them even closer then the first one. No real damage was done and the escort lost contact soon after. (see map)
20 Feb 1944
HMS Tactician (Lt.Cdr. A.F. Collett, DSC, RN) attacks a Japanese submarine north of Sumatra in position 05º53'5N, 96º46'2E. Five torpedoes were fired but these missed.
At 0725 hours (no time zone given in the patrol report but most likely it was -6.5) Tactician spotted a Japanese submarine on the surface steering course 125. At 0729 hours 5 torpedoes were fired from 5000-6000 yards. All five torpedoes missed the target. It was intended to fire eight torpedoes but when the 5th torpedo was fired it was realised that the targets speed was underestimated. (see map)
28 Feb 1944
HMS Tactician (Lt.Cdr. A.F. Collett, DSC, RN) sinks a small Japanese vessel off Penang.
27 May 1944
HMS Tactician (Lt.Cdr. A.F. Collett, DSC, RN) sinks two Siamese sailing vessels with gunfire of the west coast of Siam.