Events
On This Day - October 10
1908 | C 18 (I 48) | Launched |
1908 | C 22 (I 52) | Launched |
1916 | K 8 | Launched |
1919 | E 32 | Paid off into Reserve at Portsmouth |
1941 | Thunderbolt (N 25) | HMS Thunderbolt sinks the Italian sailing vessel Citta di Simi with gunfire some 12 miles north-east of Cape Sidero, Crete. |
1942 | Saracen (P 247) | A submarine duel occurred on this day in the Mediterranean. The British submarine HMS Saracen fired two torpedoes at U-605, but missed. The U-boat replied with four torpedoes, but these also missed |
1942 | Safari (P 211) | HMS Safari fires four torpedoes, but missed, against the Italian about 10 nautical miles south-east of Dubrovnik, Croatia, Yugoslavia. |
1942 | Unison (P 43) | HMS Unison torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Enrichetta about 12 nautical miles west-south-west of Kyparissia, Greece. |
1942 | Spark (P 236) | Laid Down |
1942 | Universal (P 57) | Launched |
1943 | Trooper (N 91) | HMS Trooper sailed from the Base at Beirut on 28th September 1943 for a patrol off the west of the Dodocanese Islands. The Submarine failed to arrive back as expected on 17th October and was assumed to have been sunk by a mine on 10th Oct 1943. There were no survivors. |
1944 | Virtue (P 75) | While operating off Crete HMS Virtue sinks the Greek sailing vessels Sophia and Aghia Anna with gunfire. |
1944 | Aeneas (P 427) | Laid Down |
1950 | Andrew (P 423) | Andrew was involved in a collision. |
1986 | Oberon (S 09) | Decommissioned |