Events

1921	1902 - 1939: Pandora	Recommissioned
1940	Taku (N38)	Completed
1943	First Use Of Chariot	A two-man submersible Chariot, based on a modified torpedo, succeeded in penetrating Palermo & sank the light cruiser Ulpio Traiano - the first such use of the device by the Royal Navy, which had copied it from the Italian Navy's Maiale that had been used to considerable effect against British shipping earlier in the war
1945	Shakespeare (P221)	HMS Shakespeare and the Japanese auxiliary minesweeper Wa 1 engage each other with gunfire off the Nancowry Strait, Nicobar Islands. Both ships are damaged in the engagement.
1945	Rorqual (N74)	HMS Rorqual lays 50 mines (minefield ML 022) off Phuket, Siam.
1986	Triumph (S93)	Ordered from Vickers, Barrow

Stealth & Secrecy Under The Ocean Waves	Read
As unusual places to have lunch go, 100ft beneath the Firth of Clyde is pretty hard to beat. Yet to the officers in the wardroom of the Sovereign it all seems pretty unremarkable. I suppose that when you have breakfasted below the North Atlantic and dined under the Arctic pack ice a calm sea five miles off Largs is nothing to write home about.