May 8th - On This Date - RN Submarine Service

1905	A8	Submarine HMS A8 completed
1905	A9	Submarine HMS A9 completed
1941	Sickle	Submarine HMS Sickle laid down
1944	Vineyard	Submarine HMS Vineyard launched
1944	Springer	Submarine HMS Springer laid down
1960	Turbulent	Submarine HMS Turbulent laid down
1905	HMS A8	At 10:30 in the morning an explosion ripped through HMS A8 whilst she was on exercise in Plymouth Sound. A nearby Trawler, the Chanticleer witnessed the explosion and lowered her boats as the submarine began to founder to offer assistance. Shortly after the submarine sank further explosions were witnessed and wreckage drifted to the surface. HMS A8 was salvaged on the 12th and inspections indicated that the explosions were more than likely caused by a chemical reaction within the battery.
1940	Taku	HMS Taku attacks a German convoy with ten torpedoes and torpedoes and damages the German torpedo boat Möwe east of Denmark. After the attack Taku was depth charged for 10 hours.
1942	HMS Olympus	Olympus was mined six miles from St Elmos Light. There were twelve survivors.
1943	HMS Safari	HMS Safari torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Peppino Palomba and torpedoes and damages the Italian merchant Liv off Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy.
1944	HMS Sickle	HMS Sickle sinks three sailing vessels, with gunfire scuttling charges and ramming, in the Doro Channel (between Euboea Island and Andros Island).
1945	HMS Sibyl	Between 8 May 1945 and 31 May 1945 HMS Sibyl sinks five Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire and scuttling charges in the Malacca Strait.
1963	HMS Repulse	Ordered from Vickers, Barrow
1963	HMS Resolution	Ordered from Vickers, barrow
1963	Tabard	HMS Tabard was involved in a collision with HMAS Queenborough

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