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On This Day - March 26

1940 Trooper (N 91) Laid Down
1942 P 39 HMS P39 was sitting alongside a jetty in Malta harbour, when german aircraft launched a concerted attack. P39 was seriously damaged and while she did not sink, due to the efforts of the crew, it was decided that she was to badly damaged to be worth repairing. She was towed to Kalkara and beached.

Many of the crew were later lost on Olympus on the way home
1943 Sirdar (P 226) Launched
1944 Unswerving (P 63) HMS Unswerving fires four torpedoes against the German merchant Gertrud off Souda Bay, Crete, Greece. All torpedoes missed.
1944 Uproar (P 31) HMS Uproar damages the German tanker Matera with gunfire inside the harbour of Oneglia, Liguria, Italy.
1945 Sidon (P 259) Sidon secured alongside SS AL RAWDAH in Holy Loch
1990 Sealion (S 07) Towed by tug Mr Cornishman to Blyth
2014 Torbay (S 90) HMS Torbay emerged from refit at Plymouth.

The Trafalgar Class submarine had been in a revalidated assisted maintenance period (RAMP) which has seen it upgraded and the nuclear power plant given a new lease of life.

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