June 10th - On This Date - RN Submarine Service

1929	Royalist	Submarine HMS Royalist laid down
1908	C30	Submarine HMS C30 laid down
1915	S3	Submarine HMS S3 launched
1918	L14	Submarine HMS L14 launched
1921	L22	Submarine HMS L22 completed
1941	Tempest	Submarine HMS Tempest launched
1941	Una	Submarine HMS Una launched
1942	Seraph	Submarine HMS Seraph completed
1940	Grampus	HMS Grampus departs Malta.
1941	HMS Torbay	HMS Torbay makes three attack runs on an Italian convoy off the Dardenelles. The first attack at 0940 hours failed to produce any results, the second attack at 1043 hours resulted in a torpedo hit on the Italian tanker Utilitas. Unfortunately the torpedo failed to explode. In the third attack at 1208 hours the Italian tanker Giuseppina Ghirardi as torpedoed and sunk 8 nautical miles off Cape Hellas.
1943	HMS Safari	HMS Safari torpedoes and sinks the German transport ship KT-12 off Orosei, Sardinia, Italy.
1944	HMS Tantalus	HMS Tantalus sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Hiyoshi Maru with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1944	Untiring	HMS Untiring torpedoes and sinks the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 6078/La Havraise about 12 nautical miles south-west of La Ciotat, southern France.

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