Events
On This Day - August 7
| 1914 | HMCS Shearwater | Depot ship HMCS Shearwater (ex HMS Shearwater) commissioned at Esquimalt BC as submarine tender |
| 1941 | Severn (N52) | HMS Severn fires torpedoes at an enemy submarine. All torpedoes miss. |
| 1941 | O24 (Dutch) | O24 missed an Italian sailing vessel with a torpedo but later on this day sank the Italian sailing vessel Margherita Madre with gunfire about 8 nautical miles southwest of Anzio, Italy. |
| 1942 | P311 | Completed |
| 1942 | Traveller (N48) | HMS Traveller attacked an Italian submarine in the Otranto Strait. Three torpedoes were fired but no hits were obtained. |
| 1943 | Rorqual (N74) | HMS Rorqual torpedoes and sinks the French merchant (in German service) Nantaise in the Aegean Sea. |
| 1944 | Stratagem (P234) | HMS Stratagem fires torpedoes against the German submarine U-181 in the Strait of Malacca near Penang. However all torpedoes missed their target. |
| 1944 | Unswerving (P63) | HMS Unswerving damages a sailing vessel with gunfire in the Aegean Sea. |
| 1945 | Shalimar (P242) | HMS Shalimar sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire in the southern part of the Strait of Malacca. |
| 2016 | Trenchant (S91) | The crew of HMS Trenchant staged a ceremony in Plymouth marking the vessel’s readiness for operations. The occasion marked the submarine’s reintegration into the fleet after undergoing a maintenance and weapon and sensors upgrade in Devonport Naval Base. The submarine holds the RN submarine record for a continuous deployment of 11 months in 2013. A rededication ceremony is a traditional part of any Royal Navy vessel’s life after completing a period of refit and improvement. The event was attended by the submarine’s sponsor, Lady Meriel Hunt. |
