December 25th - On This Date

HMS P48	HMS P48 sailed from Malta on the 23rd December 1942. Two days later she was attacked and sunk through depth charging by the Italian torpedo boat Ardente north west of Zembra Island in the Gulf of Tunis.
1943	HMS Torbay	HMS Torbay damages a sailing vessel with gunfire off Cape Stavros, Crete, Greece
1944	HMS Sirdar	HMS Sirdar sinks a Japanese vessel with gunfire off Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies.
1944	HMS Terrapin and HMS Trenchant	HMS Trenchant and HMS Terrapin sink the Japanese auxiliary minesweeper Reisui Maru. They also claim a fishing vessel and three coasters.
1944	HMS Tudor	HMS Tudor sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire of the west coast of Burma.