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On This Day - February 19

1902A1Laid Down
1908C13Completed
1916F3Launched
1919H44Launched
1919L24Launched
1937Undine (N48)Laid Down
1937Unity (N66)Laid Down
1937Ursula (N59)Laid Down
1940Sunfish (N81)HMS Sunfish fired four torpedoes at the German submarine U-14 about 30 nautical miles north-west of Helgoland, Germany. All torpedoes fired missed their target.
1941Tigris (N63)HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the French merchant Jacobsen off Bayonne and the French merchant Guilvinec about 90 nautical miles south-west of the mouth of the Gironde estuary.
1942Truant (N68)HMS Truant fires 6 torpedoes against the Japanese light cruiser Nagara north of Bali, Netherlands East Indies. All torpedoes missed.
1943Saracen (P247)HMS Saracen damages two sailing vessels with gunfire at Cervo, Liguria, Italy.
1944Unsparing (P55)HMS Unsparing torpedoes and damages the German merchant Peter in the Aegean north of Skiathos Island.
1974Sceptre (S104)Laid Down
2023Anson (S123)HMS Anson, the fifth Astute Class submarine, sailed from Barrow-in-Furness to begin her journey to His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde.

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