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On This Day - June 22

1908 A 13 (I 03) Completed
1915 D 4 (I 74) D4 had a lucky escape when she attacked the German minelayer Bielefeld which had gone aground in the Heligoland Bight. Her captain decided to sink the destroyer that was standing by the grounded minelayer before sinking Bielefeld.

Unfortunately the torpedo missed and she found herself being hunted in the very shallow water (30 feet). The destroyer made repeated runs over the submarine in an attempt to ram the conning tower and they could do nothing but hope for the best. Eventually the destroyer made off and Moncreiffe was able to surface and sink the Bielefeld.
1917 L 18 Laid Down
1940 Tribune (N 76) HMS Tribune makes a torpedo attack on an enemy merchant off Standlandet, Norway. All torpedoes missed.
1941 Union (N 56) HMS Union torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Pietro Querini about 30 nautical miles west-south-west of Lampedusa Island
1941 Severn (N 57) HMS Severn fires torpedoes at an enemy submarine in the Gulf of Naples.
1944 Universal (P 57) HMS Universal torpedoes and sinks the German merchants President Dal Piaz and Canosa off Cassis, southern France.
1945 Thrasher (N 37) HMS Thrasher sinks three Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire off the west coast of Siam.
1945 Vivid (P 77) HMS Vivid sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1967 HMCS Onondaga HMCS Onondaga commissioned
1968 HMCS Okanagan HMCS Okanagan commissioned
2015 Saracen (P 247) The remains of Saracen were found seventy two years after it was scuttled off the coast of Corsica. Photographs of HMS Saracen lying hundreds of feet below the surface of the Mediterranean were released by Guido Gay, an Italian engineer, following a two year search.

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