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On This Day - May 17

1912 E 5 (I 85) Launched
1912 A 3 Raised and used as target and sunk
1917 Sea Lions Second experiment using Sea Lions to detect submarines begins
1917 G 14 (I 6C) Launched
1919 H 33 Completed
1919 L 71 Launched
1945 Terrapin (P 323) HMS Terrapin sinks a Japanese sailing vessel and damages another with gunfire in the western part of the Java Sea.
1945 Tiptoe (P 332) HMS Tiptoe sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire of Sumbawa Island, Netherlands East Indies.
1945 Ambush (P 418) Laid Down
1958 Aurochs (P 426) Aurochs was patrolling the Molucca Sea off Indonesia when an unidentified aircraft machine-gunned her. No casualties or damage were sustained. President Sukarno's Indonesian government told the UK Government that its armed forces had not made the attack. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office stated that it accepted the assurance and assumed that North Celebes insurgents had carried out the attack.

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