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C17

Built By:	Chatham Dockyard (Medway)
Build Group:	C
Fate:	Sunk in collision with HMS Lurcher in May 1917. Repaired but scrapped in November 1919.

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Ambush (P418)

Built By:	Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group:	A2
Fate:	Decommissioned: November 1967 Sold to be broken up for scrap on 24 June 1971. Scrapped at Inverkeithing in July 1971

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Andrew (P423)

Built By:	Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group:	A2
Fate:	Scrapped 04/05/1977

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Adventures In The Adriatic

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The Adriatic, radiant in summer, with its many islands strung like jewels along the Dalmatian coast, is a pleasant sea in time of peace. With the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia and Greece, it became yet another area of perilous opportunity for the Submarines of the Royal Navy. Among the shoals off Italy's eastern seaboard and the innumerable islands of the Yugoslavian coast, where the enemy played a desperate game of hide and seek with his ore ships bound for Fiume, the Submarines carried out many adventurous patrols.