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On This Day - August 24

1918 H 33 Launched
1921 P 553 Commissioned
1923 P 555 Commissioned
1925 Otway (N 51) Laid Down
1925 Oxley (N 55) Laid Down
1927 Oberon (N 21) Completed
1938 Tetrarch (N 77) Laid Down
1938 Tetrarch (N 77) Launched
1939 Seahorse (S 98) HMS Seahorse departed Dundee to take up a patrol position to the south-west of Stavanger, Norway. When the war with Germany commenced this became her 1st war patrol.
1941 Upholder (N 99) HMS Upholder fires two torpedoes at the Italian light cruiser Luigi di Savoia Duca Delgi Abruzzi off the north-west tip of Sicily but miss the target.
1943 Unseen (P 51) An attack by HMS Unseen on the Italian merchantman Hermada, was unsuccessful.
1944 Tally-Ho (P 317) HMS Tally-Ho sinks three small Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1944 Variance (P 85) Completed
1945 Otway (N 51) Scrapped at Inverkeithing by Thos W Ward Ltd.
1945 Oberon (N 21) Sold for scrap
2003 Unseen (S 41) HMCS Victoria arrives Esquimalt. First Canadian submarine on West Coast since 1974

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