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On This Day - April 12

1916	G 10 (I 2C)	Completed

1919	R 10	Completed

1920	Bonaventure (F139) 1892 - 1920	Sold to the Forth Ship Breaking Company, Bo'ness.

1929	Wilk (N 64) (Dutch)	Launched

1935	Clyde (N 12)	Completed

1940	Snapper (N 39)	HMS Snapper sinks the small German tanker Moonsund with gunfire off Larvik, Norway.

1940	Sterlet (N 22)	Made an unsuccessful attack on an enemy convoy to the west of â€˜The Skaw' (the English name for Skaggen Odde, a sandy peninsula at the northernmost tip of Jutland).

1941	Tetrarch (N 77)	HMS Tetrarch torpedoes and sinks the Italian tanker Persiano about 30 nautical miles north-west of Tripoli, Libya.

1941	Upholder (N 99)	HMS Upholder was out of torpedoes, but still achieved a minor success by persuading an enemy convoy to turn round by firing a star-shell.

1942	Turbulent (N 98)	HMS Turbulent makes a torpedo attack on a submarine off Fiume. The target is not hit.

1942	Urge (N 17)	Torpedoes were fired at a two ship convoy. This was unsuccessful as the torpedo tracks were sighted by a flying boat acting as the escort and the ships were warned to slow down and stop.

1943	Ultor (P 53)	HMS Ultor fires three torpedoes against a German controlled merchant and the German merchant Nicoline Maersk about 8 nautical miles east of Cape Camarat. All torpedoes miss.

1943	Tally-Ho (P 317)	Completed

1944	Untiring (P 59)	HMS Untiring torpedoes ans sinks the German merchant Diana 5 nautical miles south of Oneglia.

1945	Stygian (P 249)	HMS Stygian sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire near Bali.

1945	Tapir (P 335)	The German submarine U-486 was sunk in the North Sea north-west of Bergen, Norway, by torpedoes from the British submarine HMS Tapir. Last sinking by a British Submarine in home waters.

1945	Affray (P 421)	Launched

1945	Alcide (P 415)	Launched

1945	Alcide (P 415)	Completed

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Class:	1917 - 1945: H Class
Built By:	Beardmore (Clyde)
Build Group:	H21
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Scrapped in July 1945 at Troon.

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