HMS ''Tudor'' was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as ''P326'' at Devonport Dockyard, and launched on 23 September 1942. So far she has been the only ship of the

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to bear the name ''Tudor'', after the

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Service

''Tudor'' served in the Far East for much of her career in

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, where she sank five Japanese sailing vessels, four Japanese coasters, and another Japanese vessel, as well as an unidentified sailing vessel north of Sumatra. During the war ''Tudor'' was adopted by the Borough of

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as part of ''

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''. The plaque from this adoption is held by the

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in Portsmouth. She survived World War II. On 23 April 1949, ''Tudor'' arrived at

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to begin a three-month tour in Canadian waters helping train Canadian surface vessels in anti-submarine warfare. ''Tudor'' returned to the UK in July 1949, relieved by . The submarine was sold for scrap on 1 July 1963 and

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at Faslane.

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