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On This Day - May 23

1907	C 7 (I 37)	Completed
1907	C 8 (I 38)	Completed
1915	E 11 (I 91)	Travelling up the Sea of Marmara, Ell sank a gunboat and several other small craft.
1918	H 4	Attacked and torpedoed the UB-52, This was the only contribution by the British Adriatic Force to the war effort.
1935	Spearfish (N 69)	Laid Down
1940	Truant (N 68)	HMS Truant fires two torpedoes against the British merchant Alster off the Breidsundet, Norway. The German merchant Alster was captured in the Vestfjord off Norway on 10 April 1940 by the British destroyer HMS Icarus. HMS Truant was unaware of this but fortunately both torpedoes missed their target.
1941	Upholder (N 99)	HMS Upholder torpedoes a damages the French merchant Capitaine Damiani east of Tunisia.
1944	Sceptre (P 215)	HMS Sceptre torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Baldur off Castro-Urdiales, northern Spain.
1944	Universal (P 57)	HMS Universal torpedoes and sinks the German auxiliary gunboat SG 15 off Genua, Italy.
1944	Virulent (P 95)	Launched
1963	Opossum (S 19)	Launched
1978	Maidstone (F44) 1937 - 1978	After forty years service, she arrived at Inverkeithing to be broken up.
1981	Sceptre (S 104)	Soviet submarine K-211 Petropavlovsk cruised quietly at 9 knots, 150 feet below the surface of the Arctic Barents Sea. At 19:51, the Soviet SSBN juddered as she sustained three short glancing impacts astern and from below, each lasting only a few seconds. HMS Sceptre had been trailing K-211 for some time using her Type 2001 sonar when it abruptly lost its sonar contact. The British submarine continued cruising ahead when its bow smashed into K-211's tail from below. One of the Soviet submarine's five-bladed propellers chewed into the front hull casing of the Sceptre, tearing a 23 foot long chunk off its bow and ripping off the front of its conning tower. Sceptre limped back to Faslane at night to conceal the damage, its scars camouflaged with a fabric shroud and black paint applied by the crew. Except for a few accounts by sailors involved, the incident has was kept quiet for 40 years.

Lastest Comments

13/05/2026 on page H 49
kevin walker wrote:
	believe was also attacked on 1-10-1940 near Texel by Sperrbrecher 3/H3 (ex M/S Belgrad) with pattern of 4 depth charges

16/04/2026 on page Thorough (P 324)
navy42 wrote:
	Lord Kitchener was lost in the sinking of HMS Hampshire, denoted by the black field. As Secretary of State, he initiated the recruiting scheme which raised the new army. The first complete New Army formation (as opposed to divisions) as a result of this scheme was the 4th Army under the command of G ...

12/04/2026 on page Cecil Broad 1905 - 1978
navy42 wrote:
	I believe that he also designed the Badge for HMS Thorough. It\'s a great pity that his notes do not appear to have survived

10/04/2026 on page One Submarine, Two Captains - The Early Years of HMS Repulse
Mike Watson wrote:
	I served on Repulse port crew 1st commission. Everything said about Phil Wadman is correct. I would like to also like to mention Toby Elliott who was communications officer, another top man. Soapy Watson

09/04/2026 on page Onslaught (S 14)
Stephen Alexander wrote:
	Stern torpedo tubes removed in final refit in 1982/83 in Devonport Dockyard

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United (P 44)
Class:	1936 - 1958: U Class
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Build Group:	U2
Fate: Scrapped on 12th February 1946 at Troon.

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