HMS Tabard (P342)

Royal Navy Australian Marine

HMS Tabard ( P342 ) [A 1] was a submarine of the British Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy.

The submarine was discovered after the war ended in service, so that it no longer came to a combat mission. Tabard was one of the units of the T class whose pressure hull was fully welded. 1950/51 the boat was completely overhauled and modernized in accordance with the Super T approach. In 1962, the Australian Navy, the submarine. On 8 May 1963, she collided with an anti-submarine exercise with the frigate HMAS Queensborough. Both units suffered minor damage and were overtaken on the Fleet Base East in Sydney.

1969 returned the Tabard back to the UK and stayed until 1974 firmly moored in Gosport. It served as a training boat for the training of submarine crews and thus was the last British T class boat in the service of the Royal Navy. The last British boat of the class in the active Seeeinsatz was in 1969 decommissioned HMS Tiptoe.

The HMS Tabard was sold on January 2, 1974 as scrap and broken off in March of the same year.