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On This Day - August 8

1912 No 5 Foundered while on tow off the NAB Tower whilst under tow to the breakers yard.
1915 E 11 (I 91) E11's second patrol was crowned by the sinking of the Turkish battleship Heireddin Barbarossa
1916 E 56 Completed
1918 R 11 Completed
1940 Upholder (N 99) Launched
1942 Unbroken (P 42) HMS Unbroken fires two torpedoes at the Italian merchant Algerino off Capri. Both torpedoes missed their target.
1942 Splendid (P 228) Completed
1943 Simoom (P 225) While on patrol east of Bastia, HMS Simoom fires three torpedoes at a merchant. All torpedoes missed their target.
1943 Rorqual (N 74) HMS Rorqual lays her remaining 21 mines off Lemnos, Greece.
1944 Universal (P 57) While on patrol off H'res, southern France, HMS Universal torpedoes and damages against an enemy auxiliary minesweeper.
1960 Scythian (P 237) Scrapped at Charlestown

Yards BR 3043: The Development of HM Submarines