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On This Day: January 29

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1943 X9 Submarine HMS X9 completed
1918 H23 Submarine HMS H23 launched
1918 L9 Submarine HMS L9 launched
1931 Rover Submarine HMS Rover completed
1940 Talisman Submarine HMS Talisman launched
1942 Unbroken Submarine HMS Unbroken completed
1856 Victoria Cross Queen Victoria institutes Britain's highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross.
1917 K13 Just after noon HMS K13, on trials in the Gareloch, signaled to nearby HMS E50 her intention to dive. As the submarine submerged the engine room began to flood. The submarine became uncontrollable and came to rest on the bottom with the engine room and after torpedo room flooded.

The crew of E50 witnessing K13's rapid dive closed in on the area discovering traces of oil and escaping air breaking the surface. The first rescue vessel arrived around midnight. Divers were sent down to inspect the submarine and just after daybreak on the 30th morse signals were exchanged between the divers and the trapped crew. At 1700 an airline was successfully connected, empty air bottles recharged and ballast tanks blown. With the aid of a hawser slung under her bows K13 was brought to within 8 feet of the surface. By midday of the 31st K13's bow had been raised ten feet above the water. By 2100 the pressure hull had been breached using oxyacetylene cutting equipment the survivors being transferred to safety. K13 was finally raised on 15th March, refitted and returned to service as HMS K22.
1943 HMS Seawolf HMS Sea Wolf arrives as Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to aid in A/S training.
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