Taciturn served in the Far East for much of her wartime career, where she sank a Japanese air warning picket hulk (this was the hulk of the salvaged former Dutch submarine K XVIII), the Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 105, and a Japanese sailing vessel.

On 1 August 1945, Taciturn, in company with HMS Thorough, attacked Japanese shipping and shore targets off northern Bali.

She survived the war and continued in service with the Navy, becoming the first ship of the class to undergo the 'Super T' conversion.

[1] She later was refloated with the aid of the boom defence vessel HMS Barcombe.

W. Ward and scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales on 8 August 1971.