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On This Day - August 11

1938	Forth (F04) 1938 - 1978	Launched

1941	Unsparing (P 55)	Laid Down

1944	Giuseppe Dormio	The Italian steamship Giuseppe Dormio was torpedoed and sunk by a British submarine on between Pola and Fiume in the Adriatic.

1944	Vivid (P 77)	HMS Vivid attacks the small German merchant Toni between Milos and Suda Bay. The attack is unsuccesful.

1944	Scythian (P 237)	Completed

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