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On This Day - May 31

1906B10Completed
1916K6Launched
1916K7Launched
1918L16Completed
1927Otus (N92)Laid Down
1934Shark (N54)Launched
1940Dunkirk68,014 men were evacuated from Dunkirk today. This will be the most successful day of Operation Dynamo.
1940Seal (N37)The small Swedish fishing vessel GG 5/Mode hits a mine and sinks. The mine was laid by the British submarine HMS Seal in the Kattegat on 4 May 1940.
1944Sickle (P224)HMS Sickle left for a patrol in the northern Aegean
1944Ultor (P53)HMS Ultor sinks the German guardvessel FCi 01 with gunfire off Cassis, southern France.
1944Alaric (P441)Laid Down
2004HMS BulwarkLanding ship HMS Bulwark commences sea trials at Barrow

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