Thursday, 4 October 2012

October 4th - On This Date - RN Submarine Service



1915                HMS E25 completed
1917                HMS H43 laid down
1937                HMS Triton launched
1938                HMS Undine launched
1912                HMS B2 Sank off Dover after collision with SS Amerika
In the early hours of 4 October HMS B2 was on the surface about four miles north east of Dover when the 23,000-ton steamer SS Amerika, on passage from Hamburg to New York, via Southampton, collided with the submarine. B2 was struck just forward of the conning tower, a fatal blow that sent the submarine immediately to the bottom.
1940                HMS Rainbow was on patrol in the Mediterranean, operating in the Gulf of Taranto and later in the Gulf of Otranto. She was due back in Alexandria on 19th October but failed to return. On 4th October while attacking a convoy Rainbow collided with the Italian M/V Antonietta Costa and was lost with all hands.
1940                HMS Triton torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Franca Fassio about 16 nautical miles north of Cape Noli near Genua.
1940                HMS Rorqual lays a minefield (50 mines) off Benghazi, Libya.
1941                HMS Talisman torpedoes and sinks the Vichy-French passenger ship Theophile Gautier off Euboa Island, Greece.
1944                HMS Sea Rover damages two small Japanese vessels with gunfire in the Flores Sea.
1944                HMS Tally-Ho damages a small Japanese motor vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1944                HMS Untiring fires 4 torpedoes against the German torpedo boats TA 18 off the Kassandra peninsula, Greece. All torpedoes miss.
2003                HMCS Windsor commissioned Halifax NS

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