Tuesday, 12 June 2012

June 13th - On This Date - RN Submarine Service

1889 Vulcan Depot Ship HMS Vulcan launched
1914 E8 Submarine HMS E8 completed
1916 E38 Submarine HMS E38 launched
1938 Tuna Submarine HMS Tuna laid down
1940 HMS Grampus HMS Grampus laid a minefield off Augusta, Sicily. She had left Malta on the 10th
1940 Grampus HMS Grampus attacks the Italian submarine Giovanni Bausan and the Italian torpedo boat Polluce with torpedoes. The attack however fails. Grampus also laid a minefield (50 mines) off Augusta, Sicily, Italy.
1942 HMS Unison HMS Unison fires four torpedoes at the Italian light cruisers Raimondo Montecuccoli and Emanuelle Filiberto Duca d’Aosta south of Sardinia, Italy. The torpedoes miss.
1943 Ultor Submarine Ultor bombards the D/F station, Lipari Islands
1944 HMS Stoic HMS Stoic claims to have sunk a landing craft with gunfire off Penang.
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