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On This Day - February 7

1908C23Laid Down
19251927 - 1957: Alaunia (F17)Launched
1944HMS XE22XE22 was lost 7 February 1944 in a collision in Pentland Forth.
1944X22X22 was involved in towing exercises with HMS Syrtis when heavy seas and gale force winds washed Syrtis’s Officer of the Watch overboard. The towing submarine immediately turned to rescue the officer and in doing so collided with X22. The small X-craft sank almost immediately.
1944Taku (N38)HMS Taku torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Rheinhausen about 20 nautical miles north of Stavanger, Norway.
1945Subtle (P251)HMS Subtle sinks a Japanese coaster east of the Nicobar Islands
1947Aurochs (P426)Completed
1987Torbay (S90)Completed
1989Trenchant (S91)Left Barrow

LossesSubmarine Badges