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HMS Token (P328)

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Builder
  
Portsmouth Dockyard

Commissioned
  
15 December 1945

Construction started
  
6 November 1941

Length
  
84 m

Laid down
  
6 November 1941

Fate
  
Scrapped 1970

Launched
  
19 March 1943

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Class and type
  
British T class submarine

Displacement
  
1,290 tons surfaced 1,560 tons submerged

HMS Token was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P328 at Portsmouth Dockyard, and launched on 19 March 1943. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Token.

Operational Service

Commissioned into service after the end of the Second World War, on 3 September 1945, she had a relatively peaceful career with the Navy. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

She was modernised at Devonport Dockyard in 1955. Her career was spent on the Home Station and in the Mediterranean, re-fitting at Malta. In 1965 she was part of the 1st Submarine Squadron in Portsmouth, providing basic training to submarines crews. In that year she took part in Portsmouth 'Navy Days'.

She was finally scrapped at Cairn Ryan in March 1970.

References

HMS Token (P328) Wikipedia