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On This Day - September 6

1939 Seahorse (S 98) HMS Seahorse ended her 1st war patrol at Dundee but moved to Rosyth later the same day.
1940 Tribune (N 76) HMS Tribune attacks German submarine U-56 about 15 nautical miles north-east of St. Kilda, Hebrides. Two torpedoes were fired but missed.
1941 O 24 (Dutch) Sank the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V 63 / Carla with gunfire in the Gulf of Genoa about 30 nautical miles from Gorgona Island, Italy. O24 had first fired two torpedoes that both missed.
1943 P 512 HMS P512 was handed back to the United States Navy.
1943 Sportsman (P 229) HMS Sportsman sinks the Italian fishing vessels Angiolina P and Maria Luisa B with gunfire in the port of Al'ria, Corsica, France.
1943 Universal (P 57) HMS Universal sinks the Italian auxiliary patrol vessels V 130/Ugo and V 134/Tre Sorelle with gunfire west of La Spezia, Italy.
1944 Stygian (P 249) HMS Stygian sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire of the west coast of Burma.
1944 Tabard (P 342) Laid Down
1945 Seneschal (P 255) Completed