| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Submarine |
| Class | T |
| Pennant | P 335 |
| Built by | Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) : John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 29 Mar 1943 |
| Launched | 21 Aug 1944 |
| Commissioned | 30 Dec 1944 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
| History | Loaned to the Royal Netherlands Navy on 18 June 1948 and commissioned into the Royal Netherlands Navy as Zeehond (offsite link) on 12 July 1948. Decommissioned and returned to the Royal Navy on 15 July 1953. Recommissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Tapir on 16 December 1953. Scrapped at Faslane in December 1966. Commanding Officer: |
Commands listed for HMS Tapir (P 335)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt. John Charles Young Roxburgh, DSC, DSO, RN | 4 Oct 1944 | Oct 1945 ? |
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Noteable events involving Tapir include:
12 Apr 1945
The German submarine U-486 was sunk in the North Sea north-west of Bergen, Norway, in position 60º44'N, 04º39'E by torpedoes from the British submarine HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN). (see map)