Top
Home → Boats → On This Day

Events

On This Day - September 17

1909 C 29 (I 59) Completed
1910 C 34 (I 64) Completed
1917 H 41 Laid Down
1921 Crescent 1899 - 1921 Paid off and was placed on the disposal list
1939 Seahorse (S 98) HMS Seahorse fires four torpedoes against the German submarine U-36 in the North Sea. All torpedoes fired missed their target.
1941 Tigris (N 63) HMS Tigris fires four torpedoes against a merchant of 3000 tons in a German convoy in Lopphavet about 10 nautical miles west of Loppa Island, Norway. All four torpedoes missed.
1942 Talisman (N 78) HMS Talisman left Gib for passage to Malta, where she was due no later than the 18th. Messages were received from the submarine on the 14th but she failed to arrive at Malta. The Italians claim to have sunk a submarine on the 17th to the north west of Malta. this is believed to have been the Talisman
1942 United (P 44) HMS United sinks the small Italian merchant Rostro and the Italian auxiliary submarine chaser V 39/Giovanna with gunfire near Misurata, Libya.
1942 Traveller (N 48) 2.5 miles south of Cape Archangelo (Rhodes), HMS Traveller picked up Lt. David Sutherland and Marine Duggan of the SBS (Special Boat Service, operation ANGLO), ten other members of the party failed to make the rendezvous and were captured.
1943 X 8 (Expectant) X8 was lost 17 September 1943 while attacking the Tirpitz
1944 Voracious (P 78) HMS Voracious fires four torpedoes against a merchant in the Skopelos Channel, Greece. All four torpedoes miss.
1966 HMCS Okanagan HMCS Okanagan launched Chatham UK
1970 Sovereign (S 108) Laid Down

Losses Submarine Badges