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On This Day - September 21

1917 K 2 One member of the crew accidentally fell overboard and was drowned. He was Sto 1 Reginald Tinniswood.
1918 L 55 Launched
1932 Adamant 1911 - 1932 Sold
1942 Unruffled (P 46) At 0105 hours HMS Unruffled sinks the Italian auxiliary minesweeper N 10/Aquila with gunfire off the Tunisian coast 8 nautical miles bearing 040 from Mehedia.
1943 Unseen (P 51) HMS Unseen torpedoed and sank the German mine-layer Brandenburg and the German night fighter direction vessel Kreta.

By firing a full salvo when the two target ships were overlapping, HMS Unseen achieved the remarkable result of sinking both vessels simultaneously, about 7 nautical miles northeast of Isola di Capraia, Italy.
1943 P 52 / Dzik (Polish) Fired torpedoes off Bastia harbour, Corsica, France and sank the German transport Nikolaus and the German tug Kraft. Dzik also claimed the sinking of a second transport and several German landing craft.

Yards BR 3043: The Development of HM Submarines