Tuesday, 27 March 2012

March 26th - On This Date - RN Submarine Service

1940 Trooper Submarine HMS Trooper laid down
1943 Sirdar Submarine HMS Sirdar launched
1942 P39 HMS P39 was sitting alongside a jetty in Malta harbour, when german aircraft launched a concerted attack. P39 was seriously damaged and while she did not sink, due to the efforts of the crew, it was decided that she was to badly damaged to be worth repairing. She was towed to Kalkara and beached.

Many of the crew were later lost on Olympus on the way home
1944 Unswerving HMS Unswerving fires four torpedoes against the German merchant Gertrud off Souda Bay, Crete, Greece. All torpedoes missed.
1944 Uproar HMS Uproar damages the German tanker Matera with gunfire inside the harbour of Oneglia, Liguria, Italy.
1945 HMS Sidon Sidon secured alongside SS AL RAWDAH in Holy Loch
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