December 8th - On This Date - RN Submarine Service

1914	G9	Submarine HMS G9 laid down
1938	Tribune	Submarine HMS Tribune launched
1942	Shakespeare	Submarine HMS Shakespeare launched
1942	Untamed	Submarine HMS Untamed launched
1981	Tireless	Submarine HMS Tireless laid down
1940	HMS Triton	Lost HMS Triton left Malta for a patrol in the lower Adriatic and the Straits of Otranto on 28th November 1940. At 0540 on 6th December an SOS from the Italian merchant vessel Olimpia was intercepted. Triton immediately set of to intercept her and seems to have made a successful attack before she was her self destroyed in a counter attack by two Italian Torpedo boats. There are also reports that the Italian Torpedo boat Clio may have sunk Triton. This attack is reported to have happened several days after Triton should have left the area and is therefore met with some scepticism
1941	WII	Britain declared war against Japan.
1942	HMS Rorqual	HMS Rorqual lays 33 mines off Bizerte, Tunisia.