Tuesday, 17 January 2012

January 18th - On This Date - RN Submarine Service

1918 P511 Submarine HMS P511 launched
1921 L52 Submarine HMS L52 completed
1932 Rainbow Submarine HMS Rainbow completed
1915 HMS E10 HMS E10 sailed from Harwich for operations NNW of Heligoland. No further contact was made with the submarine after parting company with HMS E5 at 1950 on the evening of the 18th. It is believed that E10 was destroyed by an enemy mine.
1916 H6 H6 became stranded on the Dutch Coast. The crew interned at Groningen.
1942 Porpoise HMS Porpoise torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Citta di Livorno about 15 nautical miles north-east of Cape Maleka, Crete.
1943 HMS Unseen HMS Unseen torpedoes and sinks the Italian naval auxiliary Sportivo 5 nautical miles bearing 20 of Zuara, Libya.
1945 HMS Shalimar HMS Shalimar sinks four Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire south of the Malakka Strait.

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