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On This Day - January 18

1915 E10 HMS E10 sailed from Harwich for operations NNW of Heligoland. No further contact was made with the submarine after parting company with HMS E5 at 1950 on the evening of the 18th. The recent discovery of the wreck of the submarine confirmed that she hit a mine. All hands were lost in this incident.
1916 H6 H6 became stranded on the Dutch Coast. The crew interned at Groningen.
1918 P511 Launched
1921 L52 Completed
1926 O9 (Dutch) Commissioned
1932 Rainbow (N16) Completed
1942 Porpoise (N14) HMS Porpoise torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Citta di Livorno about 15 nautical miles north-east of Cape Maleka, Crete.
1943 Unseen (P51) HMS Unseen torpedoes and sinks the Italian naval auxiliary Sportivo 5 nautical miles bearing 20 of Zuara, Libya.
1945 Shalimar (P242) HMS Shalimar sinks four Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire south of the Malakka Strait.

Losses Submarine Badges