HMS Sea Scout was an S class submarine

British S class submarine (1931)

The S-class submarines of the Royal Navy were originally designed and built during the modernisation of the submarine force in the early 1930s to meet the need for smaller boats to patrol the restricted waters of the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea replacing the British H class submarines...

 of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Cammell Laird and launched on March 24, 1944. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Sea Scout.

She spent most of her wartime career in the Far East, where she sank numerous Japanese ships, including twelve sailing vessels, two coasters, two unidentified vessels, a sampan

Sampan

A sampan is a relatively flat bottomed Chinese wooden boat from long. Some sampans include a small shelter on board, and may be used as a permanent habitation on inland waters. Sampans are generally used for transportation in coastal areas or rivers, and are often used as traditional fishing boats...

, a patrol vessel and a tug with five barges.

She survived the Second World War, and was sold. She arrived at Swansea on December 14, 1965 for breaking up.