After attacking Karlsruhe, Truant missed a captured British merchant ship and later intercepted Tropic Sea in the Bay of Biscay. When the German prize crew scuttled Tropic Sea, Truant rescued Norwegian sailors and called in flying boats to take off more survivors. HMS Clyde also mistook Truant for an enemy submarine and narrowly missed her with torpedoes. Truant fought in the Mediterranean before transferring to the Far East in 1942, where she declined to attack a liner displaying hospital markings and sank a Japanese Army cargo ship by gunfire. Engine trouble brought her home for a refit that lasted into 1943, after which she took part in the hunt for Tirpitz. A renewed Far Eastern deployment ended when the engine problems returned, and she became a snorkel trials boat in 1945. Launched in 1939, sold for scrap in December 1945, and wrecked under tow in December 1946, Truant fitted almost two journeys around the world into seven years.
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Truant's global patrol career and late-war trials
After Karlsruhe, Truant rescued Norwegian sailors, survived a British friendly-fire attack, fought in the Mediterranean and Far East, and ended the war testing snorkel equipment.