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HMS Tapir (P 335)

Submarine of the T class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeSubmarine
ClassT 
PennantP 335 
Built byVickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) : John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down29 Mar, 1943 
Launched21 Aug, 1944 
Commissioned30 Dec, 1944 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryLoaned 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:
Lt. John Charles Young Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN
Bar to DSC awarded on 19 June 1945
4 October 1944 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy líst. 


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)


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