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On This Day - September 1

1903 A 5 Laid Down
1903 A 6 (I 16) Laid Down
1903 A 7 (I 17) Laid Down
1903 A 8 (I 18) Laid Down
1909 D 1 (I 71) Completed
1917 H 42 Laid Down
1917 L 3 Launched
1919 H 51 Completed
1926 O 10 (Dutch) Commissioned
1939 Seal (N 37) Seal is on passage from the U.K. to the Far East to join the 1st submarine flotilla based there
1940 Tigris (N 63) HMS Tigris sinks the French fishing vessel Sancte Michael with gunfire in the Bay of Biscay near Brest, France.
1940 Tuna (N 94) HMS Tuna fires torpedoes at a submarine in the North Sea about 175 nautical east of Dundee, Scotland. All torpedoes fired missed their target.
1940 O 21 (Dutch) O21 fired two torpedoes at German U-boat U-60 in the North Sea. Both torpedoed missed the target.
1941 X 3 (Piker) Laid Down
1943 Seneschal (P 255) Laid Down
1944 Sirdar (P 226) HMS Sirdar sinks a small Japanese vessel with gunfire north-west of Sumatra.
1944 Sirdar (P 226) HMS Sirdar sinks the Japanese guardboat Kaiyo Maru No.5 with gunfire about 17 nautical miles south-east of Meulaboh, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies.
1944 Viking (P 69) HMS Viking attacks a German convoy with torpedoes off Egersund, Norway. All torpedoes fired miss.
1959 Cachalot (S 06) Completed

Yards BR 3043: The Development of HM Submarines