March 28th - OnThis Date - RN Submarine Service

1915	G11	Submarine HMS G11 laid down
1941	HMS Utmost	HMS Utmost attacks a convoy of 5 German merchants and three Italian destroyers and torpedoes and sinks the German merchants Heraklea and torpedoed and damages the Ruhr 22 nautical miles south-east of Kuriat, Tunisia.
1942	Unknown Sub	A British sub near Antipaxo sunk the Italian ocean liner, which was being used to transport troops from North Africa back to Italy. The loss of the liner entailed the loss of 768 Italian soldiers and crewmen
1943	HMS Torbay	HMS Torbay torpedoes and sinks the French merchant Lillios off Cape Scalea, Italy.
1944	HMS Syrtis	Mined & sunk HMS Syrtis left Lerwick on 16th March 1944 for a patrol off the Norwegian coast. On 20th March she was ordered to an area near Bodo, some 70 miles inside the Arctic Circle. Two days later she sank the steamer Narvik with gunfire. On the 28th a signal was sent to Syrtis ordering her to return to Lerwick. This signal was never acknowledged and the submarine failed to return. German reports indicate the sinking of a submarine in the Bodo area at the time by shore batteries, but the most likely cause of her loss is a mine.
1944	HMS Sportsman	HMS Sportsman torpedoes and sinks the small German tanker MT 3/Vienna off Monemvassia, Greece.
1944	HMS Truculent	HMS Truculent torpedoes and sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Yasushima Maru in the Strait of Malacca
1945	HMS Thule	HMS Thule sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire off the west coast of Siam.

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