| 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 | 20 Dec 1941 |
| 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. |
Commands listed for HMS Tapir (P 335)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt. John Charles Young Roxburgh, DSO, DSC, RN | 4 Oct 1944 | 12 Feb 1946 |
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Noteable events involving Tapir include:
28 Dec 1944
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) departs her builders yard at Barrow for Holy Loch.
29 Dec 1944
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) arrives at Holy Loch for a period of trials and training.
23 Jan 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) is docked at Holy Loch.
25 Jan 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) is undocked.
2 Apr 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) departs Holy Loch for Lerwick.
4 Apr 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) arrives at Lerwick.
5 Apr 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) departs Lerwick for her 1st war patrol. She is to patrol off the Norwegian West coast, just North of Bergen.
For the daily and attack positions of HMS Tapir during this patrol see the map below.
HMS Tapir 1st war patrol click here for bigger map
6 Apr 1945
At 2200 hours (time zone -2) sighted were taken aboard HMS Turpin (A/Lt.Cdr. J.S. Stevens, DSO and Bar, DSC, RN). Turpin was to be on patrol to the South of Tapir. It has not been possible to take sights for several days due to fog. Turpin was found to be badly out of place. She is more then 20 nautical miles to the North of where she was supposed to patrol.
Shortly afterwards contact was made with HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) in which patrol area Turpin now actually was.
Turpin then proceeded to her own patrol area of the Kors Fjord.
12 Apr 1945
The German submarine U-486 was sunk in the North Sea north-west of Bergen, Norway, in position 60º44'N, 04º40'E by torpedoes from the British submarine HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN).
(All times are zone -2)
0730 hours - Strange HE was picked up on Asdic. This was thought to be a snorkelling u-boat.
0749 hours - A German submarine was seen to surface in position 60º45'N, 04º40'E.
0753 hours - In position 60º44'N, 04º40'E fired 6 torpedoes (8 was intended) from 3200 yards. The 6th and 8th torpedo of the salvo failed to fire.
0755 hours - One hit was observed on the enemy submarine which blew up and was seen to disintegrate. A huge column of brown smoke arose to some 500 feet in the air. Breaking up noises were heard on the Asdic and after the smoke had cleared nothing more could be seen. (see map)
16 Apr 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) ends her 1st war patrol at Lerwick.
22 Apr 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) departs Lerwick for Holy Loch.
24 Apr 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) arrives at Holy Loch.
30 Apr 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) is docked at Holy Loch.
2 May 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) is undocked.
6 May 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) departs Holy Loch for Gibraltar. This is the first leg of the trip to the Far East.
For the daily positions of HMS Tapir during this passage see the map below.
HMS Tapir passage Holy Loch (U.K.) - Fremantle (Australia) click here for bigger map
15 May 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) arrives at Gibraltar. She departs for Malta after a few hours.
20 May 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC, RN) arrives at Malta.
19 Jun 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) departs Malta for Port Said.
23 Jun 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) arrives at Port Said.
24 Jun 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) departs Port Said, transits the Suez Canal and proceeds towards Aden.
29 Jun 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) arrives at Aden.
2 Jul 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) departs Aden for Trincomalee.
13 Jul 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) arrives at Trincomalee.
15 Jul 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) is docked at Trincomalee.
17 Jul 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) is undocked.
8 Aug 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) is put on the slipway at Fremantle.
9 Aug 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) is put back in the water.
5 Sep 1945
HMS Tapir (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxbourgh, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) departs Fremantle to visit Portland. The ship will be open to visitors during this goodwill tour.
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