Tuesday, 25 September 2012

September 26th - On This Date - RN Submarine Service




1908                HMS C21 launched
1917                HMS L33 laid down
1931                HMS Starfish laid down
1961                Submarine HMS Oracle launched
1941                HMS Tetrarch torpedoes sinks the Italian merchant Citta di Bastia in the Aegean Sea about 18 nautical miles south of Milos Island, Greece.
1941                HMS Tigris torpedoes and heavily damages the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 1201 off the Rolvsoy Fjord.
1961                Scrapped at Gateshead.
1963                Polaris First steam-eject launch of Polaris missile at sea off Cape Canaveral, FL (now Cape Kennedy) from USS Observation Island

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