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On This Day - September 26

1908 C 21 (I 51) Launched
1917 L 33 Laid Down
1917 C 4 (I 34) Fired on a German submarine whilst on the surface and on seeing the U-boat disappear into the darkness assumed that she had missed.

After the war when all the logs of the U-boats were obtained it was discovered that the attack had hit the U-boat on her starboard quarter and failed to explode.
1931 Starfish (S 19) Laid Down
1933 O 13 (Dutch) Ran into and sank fishing boat, HD 7, from Den Helder in the Schulpengat.
1941 Tetrarch (N 77) HMS Tetrarch torpedoes sinks the Italian merchant Citta di Bastia in the Aegean Sea about 18 nautical miles south of Milos Island, Greece.
1941 Tigris (N 63) HMS Tigris torpedoes and heavily damages the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 1201 off the Rolvsoy Fjord.
1961 Trespasser (P 312) Scrapped at Gateshead.
1961 Oracle (S 16) Launched
1963 Polaris First steam-eject launch of Polaris missile at sea off Cape Canaveral, FL (now Cape Kennedy) from USS Observation Island

Losses Submarine Badges