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'. On 20 August 1967,
Token was on exercise off the West coast of Scotland when she took the Danish merchant ship
Opnor, which was adrift after her engines had broken down, under tow, preventing the merchant ship from drifting onto a reef. She was finally scrapped at
Cairn Ryan in March 1970. ==Notes==