HMS SARACEN was built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Completed in 1942, SARACEN conducted a patrol in the North Sea where she sank a German U-boat. She was then assigned to the Tenth Submarine Flotilla in Malta, from where she made three patrols; on her second, she sank an Italian submarine. SARACEN was then reassigned to the Eighth Submarine Flotilla, based in Algiers.

Operating from there, she conducted six patrols, sinking seven ships and landing agents in Corsica and Sardinia. On her twelfth patrol, SARACEN was heavily damaged by two depth charge attacks from Italian destroyers. On 13 August 1943, SARACEN was detected by two Italian corvettes and again attacked with depth charges. With several leaks in her pressure hull, the submarine surfaced and her crewmen abandoned ship. She was then scuttled and 46 out of 48 men were rescued by the Italian ships. SARACEN’s wreck was discovered in 2015 off Corsica.