January 3rd - On This Date

1940	Taku	Submarine HMS Taku completed
1943	First Use Of Chariot	A two-man submersible Chariot, based on a modified torpedo, succeeded in penetrating Palermo & sank the light cruiser Ulpio Traiano - the first such use of the device by the Royal Navy, which had copied it from the Italian Navy's Maiale that had been used to considerable effect against British shipping earlier in the war
1945	HMS Shakespeare	HMS Shakespeare and the Japanese auxiliary minesweeper Wa 1 engage each other with gunfire off the Nancowry Strait, Nicobar Islands. Both ships are damaged in the engagement.
1945	HMS Rorqual	HMS Rorqual lays 50 mines (minefield ML 022) off Phuket, Siam.
1986	HMS Triumph	Ordered from Vickers, Barrow