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On This Day - October 25

1894 St George 1891 - 1920 Commissioned
1904 B 1 (I 21) Launched
1915 S 2 Transferred to Italy
1915 S 1 Transferred to Italy
1915 S 3 Transferred to Italy
1919 H 49 Commissioned
1919 H 50 Launched
1919 L 22 Launched
1934 Snapper (N 39) Launched
1938 Thistle (N 24) Launched
1941 Triumph (N 18) HMS Triumph torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Monrosa in the Gulf of Athens, about 3 nautical miles north-west of Patroklou island, Greece.
1941 Seraph (P 219) Launched
1942 Taku (N 38) HMS Taku attacks the Italian tanker Arca off Chios, Greece. The torpedoes missed their target.
1942 O 23 (Dutch) Torpedoed and damaged the Japanese merchant Shinyu Maru off Penang, Malaya.
1943 Surf (P 239) HMS Surf damages the German auxiliary patrol vessel GA 54/Chiaros with gunfire east of Amorgos, Greece.
1943 Spirit (P 245) Completed
1943 Telemachus (P 321) Completed
1944 USS Tang The USS Tang (SS-306) under Richard O'Kane (a top US submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own torpedo.

The torpedo was fired. It broached and curved to the left in a circular run. Tang fishtailed under emergency power to clear the turning circle of the torpedo, but it struck her abreast the aft torpedo room approximately 20 seconds after it was fired. Tang sank by the stern. Nine survivors, including the commanding officer, were picked up the next morning by a Japanese destroyer escort. They spent the remainder of the war in prisoner of war camps.
1944 Stoic (P 231) HMS Stoic sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire in the Java Sea.
1944 Tantivy (P 319) HMS Tantivy sinks the Japanese barge No. 136 and the Japanese motor sailing vessel Tachibana Maru No.47 with gunfire off Miro, Sumbawa, Netherlands East Indies.
1945 Aeneas (P 427) Launched
1957 Narwhal (S 03) Launched

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