Wednesday, 15 February 2012

February 15th - On This Date - RN Submarine Service

1943 Templar Submarine HMS Templar completed
1907 C7 Submarine HMS C7 launched
1907 C8 Submarine HMS C8 launched
1915 W2 Submarine HMS W2 launched
1915 E49 Submarine HMS E49 laid down
1943 Visigoth Submarine HMS Visigoth laid down
1945 Sanguine Submarine HMS Sanguine launched
1943 Supreme Submarine HMS Supreme laid down
1941 Cachalot HMS Cachalot lays minefield FD 30 (50 mines) in the Vest Fjord, Norway. The same day she also makes a torpedo attack on a merchant ship but without result.
1942 HMS P38 HMS P38 torpedoes and sinks Italian merchant Ariosto off Tunisia. 138 Allied POW's are lost
1942 HMS P36 HMS P 36 torpedoes and damages the Italian destroyer Carabiniere off Taranto.
1943 HMS Saracen HMS Saracen torpedoes and damages the French (in German service) tanker Marguerite Finaly in the Capo di Noli/Capo di Vado area, Italy.
1943 HMS Una HMS Una torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Petrarca about 10 nautical miles north of Crotone, Calabria, Italy.
1944 HMS Upstart HMS Upstart sinks German auxiliary minelayer Niedersachsen (former French Guyane) off the Italian Riviera
1944 HMS Ultor HMS Ultor sinks the German sailing vessel Paulewith gunfire off Hyeres, southern France.
1945 HMS Thorough HMS Thorough sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire of the west coast of Siam.
1964 HMS Onyx HMS Onyx renamed HMCS Ojibwa while under construction
1968 HMS Resolution The first test-firing of a Polaris missile from a Royal Navy submarine was successfully conducted
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