Thule served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank thirteen junks, two lighters and five
sampans with gunfire in the
Strait of Malacca in a twelve-day period between 17 December 1944 to 29 December 1944. She also attacked a submarine, probably the and believed she had sunk it, but
Thules torpedoes exploded prematurely and the submarine escaped unharmed. She went on to sink a further five sailing vessels and three coasters, as well as laying a number of
mines. She survived the war and continued in service with the Navy. In May 1951,
Thule was sent to Canada to train with the
Royal Canadian Navy. On 18 November 1960,
Thule, a member of the 5th Submarine Squadron, was taking part in an anti-submarine exercise off
Portland Bill, when she was accidentally rammed by the
Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker when at periscope depth.
Thules
snort was broken, one of her periscopes was bent and her casing was damaged. The submarine was scrapped at
Thos. W. Ward,
Inverkeithing on 14 September 1962. Her first commander,
Alastair Mars, wrote
HMS Thule Intercepts, about her operations from commissioning in Scotland to the end of the war in Australia. ==References==