Sunday, 21 October 2012

October 21st - On This Date - RN Submarine Service



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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