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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