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On This Day - August 28

1911 D 5 (I 75) Launched
1914 K 17 The fearless led the 1st Destroyer Flotilla of the Harwich force, and fought at the Heligoland Bight action on August 28,1914
1916 L 5 Laid Down
1936 Triton (N 15) Laid Down
1938 Oxley (N 55) HMS Oxley arrived at Dundee.
1939 O 20 (Dutch) Commissioned
1941 Rorqual (N 74) HMS Rorqual torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Cilicia about 40 nautical miles south-south-west of Schiza Island.
1941 Uredd (P 41) Launched
1943 Sickle (P 224) HMS Sickle torpedoes and sinks the German escort vessel SG-10/Felix Henri east of Corsica, France.
1943 Ultor (P 53) HMS Ultor sinks the Italian torpedo boat Lince off Punta Alice, Italy.
1943 Unseen (P 51) HMS Unseen sank an Italian auxiliary patrol vessel, V216/Fabiola, off Vlorë, Albania, with a mixture of gunfire and scuttling charges.
1996 Repulse (S 23) Decommissioned

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Pandora (N 42)

Class: 1927 - 1946: Parthian Class
Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: P
Fate:
During an air raid on Malta on 1st April 1942, Pandora was alongside Grand Harbour, Malta, off-loading stores, when she was hit by two bombs, which sank the submarine in less than four minutes.

Twenty-five of the crew were killed in the sinking. The wreck of Pandora was raised and beached in Kalkara Creek.

Salvaged in September 1943 and scrapped in 1945.
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