Events
On This Day - December 1
| 1588 | The Chatham Chest | The first attempt to organize welfare provision for Royal Navy seamen was established - the Chatham Chest. Contributions were deducted from sailors pay and placed in the chest, which had five different locks, the keys being held by five officers, in a (not very successful) attempt to avoid corruption, with sums disbursed to seamen in distressed circumstances |
| 1884 | 1886 - 1921: Forth | Laid down |
| 1913 | F1 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | E14 | Completed |
| 1914 | E23 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | E29 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | E30 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | E31 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | E37 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | E38 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | E39 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | E40 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | E42 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | E55 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | E56 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | G6 | Laid Down |
| 1914 | G14 | Laid Down |
| 1916 | E37 | Lieutenant Commander Robert Fellowes Chisholm had sailed from Harwich in company with E54 (Lieutenant Commander Robert Raikes). It is thought that E37 was lost in a minefield off Orford Ness. |
| 1916 | M4 | Laid Down |
| 1917 | R9 | Laid Down |
| 1917 | R11 | Laid Down |
| 1917 | R12 | Laid Down |
| 1918 | R2 | Completed |
| 1930 | Swordfish (N61) | Laid Down |
| 1941 | Regent (N41) | HMS Regent torpedoes and damages the Italian merchant Enrico about 10 nautical miles south-east of Marettimo island, Italy. |
| 1942 | Ursula (N59) | HMS Ursula sinks the Italian auxiliary submarine chaser V 135/Togo with scuttling charges some 15 miles south of Cape Mele, Corsica, France. |
| 1942 | Sickle (P224) | Completed |
| 1944 | Sturdy (P248) | HMS Sturdy sinks a Japanese vessel with gunfire in Makassar Strait. |
| 1944 | Supreme (P252) | HMS Supreme sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire of the Andaman Islands. |
| 1944 | Vortex (P87) | Completed |
| 1982 | Turbulent (S87) | Launched |