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On This Day - February 5

1902 No 1 First dive of the Royal Navys first Submarine
1916 E 55 Launched
1940 Seal (N 37) HMS Seal departed Rosyth for her 8th war patrol. She was ordered to patrol off the Southern Norwegian coast and to capture a German iron ore carrier and sent her to Kirkwall. If this was not possible a neutral iron ore carrier was to be seized and sent to Kirkwall. Seal had embarked a boarding party.
1941 Sealion (N 72) After allowing the evacuation of passengers. HMS Sealion sinks the (German controlled) Norwegian Ryfylke with high explosive shells off Honningsvag, Norway.
1941 Upright (N 89) HMS Upright makes a torpedo attack on an Italian convoy off Kerkennah and missed the Italian merchant Calino.
1943 Turbulent (N 98) HMS Turbulent torpedoes and sinks the Italian tanker Utilitas off Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
1944 Stonehenge (P 232) HMS Stonehenge sinks the Japanese merchant vessel Koryo Maru No.2 north of Penang, Sumatra.

Yards BR 3043: The Development of HM Submarines