June 4th - On This Date - RN Submarine Service

1908	C27	Submarine HMS C27 laid down
1908	C29	Submarine HMS C29 laid down
1915	H2	Submarine HMS H2 completed
1940	Dunkirk	Dunkirk evacuation completed. The nine-day evacuation, the largest of its kind in history and an unexpected success, saved 338,000 Allied troops from capture by the Nazis
1942	HMS Trusty	HMS Trusty torpedoes and sinks the Japanese merchant cargo ship Toyohashi Maru in Strait of Malacca.
1943	HMS Truculent	HMS Truculent torpedoes and sinks the German submarine U-308 in the Norwegian sea north-east of the Faeroes.
1944	HMS Sickle	Sickle fired upon shipping in Mitylene Harbour and was engaged in gunfire with German patrol vessels GA76 and GA91 during which Able Seaman Richard Blake, a member of the submarines 3 inch gun crew who was blown over board. The submarine had to make an urgent dive to avoid further hits, and Blake was left in the water and picked up by the Germans to become a POW. Sickle escaped the engagement and continued on her patrol
1944	HMS Templar	HMS Templar lays mines in the Strait of Malacca.
1947	HMS Seneschal	HMS Seneschal suffers an explosion.

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