1906 HMS C3 launched
1915 HMS E26 completed
1929 HMS Phoenix launched
1943 HMS Unswerving completed
1967 HMS Resolution completed
1941 HMS Talisman destroyes the wreck of the German
merchant Yalova that is grounded at Agios Giorgios Island.
1942 HMS Una fires torpedoes against a merchant in
Lampedusa harbour but torpedoes hit the rocks.
1942 HMS Porpoise lays a minefield
(46 mines) west of Tobruk, Libya.
1943 On 12th September X10 departed Loch Cairnbawn under
tow from HMS Sceptre to take part in the attack on the Scharnhorst. At the
appointed time the operational crew took over from the passage crew and
proceeded to where the Scharnhorst lay at anchor. A fire in the periscope motor
prevented the X-craft from pressing home the attack and she had to withdraw and
was taken undertow by HMS Stubborn on 28th September. On 3rd October the tow
parted and only with great difficulty was the submarine brought back under
control. That evening Stubborn received a gale warning and the order to scuttle
X10 at the captains discretion. This was duly done and Stubborn returned to
Lerwick.
1943 HMS Usurper left Algiers on 24th September 1943 with
instruction to patrol of La Spezia. On 3rd October she was ordered to move to
the Gulf of Genoa. No further contact was made and she failed to return to
Algiers on the 12th as expected. The German anti-submarine vessel UJ2208
reported attacking a submarine in the Gulf of Genoa on 3rd October and it is
believed that this may have been the Usurper.
1943 HMS Unruffled attacks the small German minesweeper R
212 with torpedoes off Bastia, Corsica, France but misses.
1943 HMS Unshaken fires three torpedoes against the
Italian merchant Nina off Elba Island. None of the torpedoes fired hit the
target.
1944 HMS Unswerving torpedoes and sinks the German tanker
Bertha about 40 nautical miles north of Skiathos Island, Greece.
1960 HMS Anchorite was damaged striking an uncharted rock
now known as Anchorite rock in the Gulf of Auraki, New Zealand.
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