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On This Day - July 9

1902	A 1	Launched

1917	M 1	Launched

1920	M 3	Completed

1923	P 551 / Jastrab (Polish)	Commissioned

1928	Pandora (N 42)	Laid Down

1929	H 47	HMS L12 was at sea with an Officer Training Class; at the same time H47 was on independent exercises in the Irish Sea. At 0800 both submarines were off the Pembrokeshire coast with L12 ahead of H47. L12 suddenly altered course to starboard. H47 at once went full astern and to collision stations. The two submarines crashed together with L21 bow penetrating about 2 feet. In only 15 seconds H47 began to sink. L12 also began to take in water but her crew managed to control the flood.

1929	L 12	HMS L12 was at sea with an Officer Training Class; at the same time H47 was on independent exercises in the Irish Sea. At 0800 both submarines were off the Pembrokeshire coast with L12 ahead of H47. L12 suddenly altered course to starboard. H47 at once went full astern and to collision stations. The two submarines crashed together with L21 bow penetrating about 2 feet. In only 15 seconds H47 began to sink. L12 also began to take in water but her crew managed to control the flood. Petty Officer Hicks was on the bridge of H47 at the time of the collision and had a remarkable escape. He had jumped from the bridge onto the bows of L12 and grabbed hold of her forward jumping wire. He was taken down with L12 but managed to cling to the wire until she returned to the surface.

1940	Salmon (N 65)	HMS Salmon departed her base to patrol off Skudesnes on the SW coast of Norway. She was sent signals on 9th, 11th and 12th July, the final one ordering a return to base. None of these signals were acknowledged. Later it became known that one of the signals routed her across a minefield, which at the time was unknown to the Admiralty. There is also a possibility that she was attacked by aircraft, but mining is the most likely.

1940	Unbeaten (N 93)	Launched

1941	Sealion (N 72)	HMS Sealion sinks the French fishing vessel St Pierre d'Alcantara with gunfire off Ushant.

1941	Torbay (N 79)	HMS Torbay sinks the German sailing vessels L V, L XII and L VI, with gunfire and scuttling charges about 10 nautical miles north of Antikythera, Greece and damages the Italian oiler Strombo in the Zea Channel.

1941	P 38	Launched

1943	Taurus (P 339)	HMS Taurus sinks four sailing vessels with two torpedoes and gunfire at Kastron harbour, Chios, Greece.

1944	Spirit (P 245)	HMS Spirit claims to have damaged a small Japanese oiler with gunfire to the north of Sumatra.

1945	Sea Scout (P 253)	HMS Sea Scout sinks three Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Gulf of Siam.

1974	Sovereign (S 108)	Completed

2010	Tireless (S 88)	Tireless began a ten-month deployment, spending 253 days at sea, the longest conducted by a Royal Navy submarine for ten years

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Rover (N 62)

Class:	1929 - 1946: Rainbow Class
Built By:	Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group:	R2
Fate:
Sold in July 1946 and scrapped at Durban.

Combat veteran Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his second-in-command Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington) are the chief officers on board US nuclear submarine Crimson Tide.

They are heading for Russia, ready to intervene in an escalating crisis which could result in the outbreak of World War 3. When they then receive orders to launch their missiles, Ramsay and Hunter clash over the validity of the command and mutiny ensues.

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