1918 HMS H42 launched
1937 HMS Maidstone launched
1918 Last torpedo of WWI - The final German torpedo of
World War I was fired in the Irish Sea sinking a small British merchant ship
the Saint Barcham and drowning its eight crewmen.
1941 HMS Rorqual lays 10 mines off
Isola dei Cavoli off south-east Sardinia.
1942 HMS Graph - While on patrol in the Bay of Biscay, HMS
Graph attacks but misses the German submarine U-333 with four torpedoes about
50 nautical miles north-north-east of Cape Ortegal, Spain.
1944 HMS Spark arrives at Trincomalee
to join the Eastern Fleet.
1944 HMS Tantivy - While operating in Makassar Strait HMS
Tantivy sinks with gunfire, eight small Japanese vessels.
1960 HMS Dreadnought launched
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