July 8th - On This Date - RN Submarine Service

1944	Trump	Submarine HMS Trump completed
1945	Aurochs	Submarine HMS Aurochs launched
1940	HMS Sealion	HMS Sealion fires a torpedo at the beached wreck of the German merchant Palime off Obrestadt. The Palime was beached after hitting a mine on 5 June 1940 that was laid by HMS Narwhal.
1941	HMS Sealion	HMS Sealion sinks the French fishing vessel Christus Regnat with gunfire off Ushant.
1941	HMS Torbay	Around 1130 hours HMS Torbay sinks the German sailing vessels L XIV and L I with gunfire and scuttling charges east of Kythera, Greece.
1943	HMS Trident	HMS Trident damages the German patrol vessel GA 41/Tassia Christa with gunfire some 20 miles north of the Doro channel.
1943	HMS Taurus	HMS Taurus sinks two Greek sailing vessels through ramming. Taurus also torpedoes and damages the Greek merchant Konstantinos Louloudis off Skyros, Greece.
1943	HMS Ultor	HMS Ultor torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Valfionita off Rasocomolo, Sicily, Italy.
1944	HMS Porpoise	HMS Porpoise lays 16 more mines of the mouth of the Deli river and 10 mines in the Strait of Malacca.

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