1916 HMS E39 completed
1936 HMS Sunfish launched
1941 HMS Taurus laid down
1943 HMS Strongbow launched
1943 HMS Sturdy launched
1939 HMS H-34 fires two torpedoes at the German submarine
U-3 15 nautical miles north of Kinnaird Head. The torpedoes miss.
1941 Trident fires three torpedoes against the German
hospital ship Birka in the Breidsundet about 4 nautical miles north-west of
Havaysund, Norway. All three missed.
1941 Overnight, HMS URGE took part in an operation to
deliver a package to an agent on a beach in the Gulf of Gioia. It turned out
that the agent was a double agent and the officer who was paddling ashore to
deliver the package was killed by gunfire from the shore.
1943 HMS Sibyl torpedoes and sinks the German auxiliary
minesweeper M 7022/Hummer about 12 nautical miles north-east of Bastia,
Corsica, France.
1954 The worlds first nuclear reactor
powered vessel USS Nautilus is commissioned.
2011 HMS Ambush - Initial dive test
completed in Devonshire Dock
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