HMS Supreme 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

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

She survived the Second World War, spending most of it in the Pacific Far East, where she sank thirteen Japanese sailing vessels, six Japanese coasters, a Japanese tug and a barge, and a small unidentified Japanese vessel. Supreme also attacked what is thought to be a Japanese auxiliary patrol vessel.

Supreme was eventually paid off and broken up at Troon in July 1950.