| 1939 | Seahorse (S 98) | HMS Seahorse was undocked. |
| 1941 | Thunderbolt (N 25) | HMS Thunderbolt torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Livorno about 35 nautical miles west-south-west of Benghazi, Libya. |
| 1941 | O 24 (Dutch) | Encountered a Motor-Torpedo Boat. Five minutes later two torpedo tracks were seen coming from starboard which were evaded. O24 cleared the area at speed. |
| 1943 | Rorqual (N 74) | HMS Rorqual lays her remaining 20 mines off Lemnos, Greece. |
| 1944 | Venturer (P 68) | Torpedoed and sank the Norwegian merchant Vang off Lister, Norway |
| 2001 | Terrorist Attacks | Terrorist attacks on the United States result in the destruction of the two largest towers of the World Trade Center in New York by civilian airliners. A third plane crashes into the Pentagon in Arlington VA; a fourth plane crashes when the passengers overpower the hijackers |
| Class: | 1942 - 1946: X Class |
| Built By: | Markham and Co (Derbyshire) |
| Build Group: | X |
| Fate: | |
| The Submarine was under tow by HMS Syrtis in the Pentland Firth on Monday 7th February 1944 when the Officer of the Watch (Lieutenant Charles Blythe, RNR) was washed overboard from the bridge of HMS Syrtis. The Commanding Officer of HMS Syrtis (Lieutenant M H Jupp, Royal Navy) reversed course in an attempt to rescue his ‘man overboard’ and accidentally collided with Submarine X-22. Submarine X-22 sank at once and Lieutenant MacFarlane and his crew of three were all lost. | |
An account of the development and use of the human torpedoes, semi-submersible and midget submarines mainly in WW2 but including some of the developments that took place in 1918, with many half tone photo ills. and brief accounts of many of the actions involving these craft
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| Class: | 1942 - 1946: X Class |
| Built By: | Markham and Co (Derbyshire) |
| Build Group: | X |
| Fate: | |
| The Submarine was under tow by HMS Syrtis in the Pentland Firth on Monday 7th February 1944 when the Officer of the Watch (Lieutenant Charles Blythe, RNR) was washed overboard from the bridge of HMS Syrtis. The Commanding Officer of HMS Syrtis (Lieutenant M H Jupp, Royal Navy) reversed course in an attempt to rescue his ‘man overboard’ and accidentally collided with Submarine X-22. Submarine X-22 sank at once and Lieutenant MacFarlane and his crew of three were all lost. | |
An account of the development and use of the human torpedoes, semi-submersible and midget submarines mainly in WW2 but including some of the developments that took place in 1918, with many half tone photo ills. and brief accounts of many of the actions involving these craft
13 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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