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On This Day - June 13

1889	Vulcan 1889 - 1955	Launched
1914	E 8 (I 88)	Completed
1916	E 38	Launched
1938	Tuna (N 94)	Laid Down
1940	Grampus (N 56)	HMS Grampus laid a minefield off Augusta, Sicily. She had left Malta on the 10th
1940	Grampus (N 56)	HMS Grampus attacks the Italian submarine Giovanni Bausan and the Italian torpedo boat Polluce with torpedoes. The attack however fails. Grampus also laid a minefield (50 mines) off Augusta, Sicily, Italy.
1942	Unison (P 43)	HMS Unison fires four torpedoes at the Italian light cruisers Raimondo Montecuccoli and Emanuelle Filiberto Duca d'Aosta south of Sardinia, Italy. The torpedoes miss.
1943	Ultor (P 53)	Submarine Ultor bombards the D/F station, Lipari Islands
1944	Stoic (P 231)	HMS Stoic claims to have sunk a landing craft with gunfire off Penang.
1945	O 24 (Dutch)	Attacked the Japanese torpedo boat Kiji about 70 nautical miles west-southwest of Makassar. Four torpedoes were fired but all missed. O24 was depth charged following this failed attack.

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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Sea Rover (P 218)

Class:	1935 - 1970: Improved S Class
Built By:	Scotts (Clyde)
Build Group:	S3
Fate:
Scrapped Faslane 10/49

The author relates his experiences as a submarine commander for the British Royal Navy during World War II, describing patrols in the North Sea and the Mediterranean and enemy attacks that made submarine operations the most dangerous of combat services

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