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On This Day - August 25

1921 B 1 (I 21) Sold for breaking to A J Andersen but resold on 2/5/1922 to J Smith of Poole.
1921 B 5 (I 25) Sold for breaking to A J Andersen but resold on 1/3/1922 to J Smith of Poole.
1939 Alaunia (F17) 1927 - 1957 The passenger ship Alaunia as requisitioned by the Admiralty from the Cunard White Star Line, Liverpool for conversion to an armed merchant cruiser
1939 Oxley (N 55) HMS Oxley departed Portsmouth for Dundee.
1941 Rorqual (N 74) HMS Rorqual lays 50 mines off Cap Skinari, Greece.
1942 Telemachus (P 321) Laid Down
1942 Venturer (P 68) Laid Down
1950 Artful (P 456) Having completed repairs to fire damage to the Control Room. HMS ARTFUL rejoined with the 3rd Submarine Flotilla until August 1951.
1961 Telemachus (P 321) Scrapped at Charlestown.