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On This Day - August 14

1909 C 27 (I 57) Completed
1909 C 28 (I 58) Completed
1915 F 1 (I A0) Completed
1915 G 1 (I A3) Launched
1936 Orzel (85 A) (Polish) Laid Down
1940 Osiris (N 67) Torpedoed and sunk the Italian steamship Leopardi.
1942 Traveller (N 48) HMS Traveller ended her 2nd war patrol at Beirut.
1943 Saracen (P 247) HMS Saracen suffers flooding after heavy depth charge attacks by Italian Corvettes Minerva (Lieutenant Mario Baroglio) and Evterpe (Lieutenant Antonio March).

Unable to control buoyancy, the crew assembles in the control room to make their escape to the surface, and Saracen sinks after being abandoned

Two members of the crew were lost in the sinking. The remainder of the crew were taken Prisoner of War
1944 Sturdy (P 248) HMS Sturdy sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire off the west coast of Burma.
1945 Statesman (P 246) HMS Statesman sinks 5 Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire and demolition charges in the Strait of Malacca.
1962 Onslaught (S 14) Commissioned
1993 Vanguard (S 28) Completed

Yards BR 3043: The Development of HM Submarines