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On This Day - October 4

1912 B 2 (I 22) Sank off Dover after collision with SS Amerika

In the early hours of 4 October HMS B2 was on the surface about four miles north east of Dover when the 23,000-ton steamer SS Amerika, on passage from Hamburg to New York, via Southampton, collided with the submarine. B2 was struck just forward of the conning tower, a fatal blow that sent the submarine immediately to the bottom.
1915 E 25 Completed
1917 H 43 Laid Down
1937 Triton (N 15) Launched
1938 Undine (N 48) Launched
1939 Seal (N 37) HMS Seal arrived at Alexandria
1939 Seahorse (S 98) HMS Seahorse moved from Dundee to Rosyth where she was immediately docked.
1940 Rainbow (N 16) HMS Rainbow was on patrol in the Mediterranean, operating in the Gulf of Taranto and later in the Gulf of Otranto. She was due back in Alexandria on 19th October but failed to return.

On 4th October while attacking a convoy Rainbow collided with the Italian M/V Antonietta Costa and was lost with all hands.
1940 Triton (N 15) HMS Triton torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Franca Fassio about 16 nautical miles north of Cape Noli near Genua.
1940 Rorqual (N 74) HMS Rorqual lays a minefield (50 mines) off Benghazi, Libya.
1941 Talisman (N 78) HMS Talisman torpedoes and sinks the Vichy-French passenger ship Theophile Gautier off Euboa Island, Greece.
1942 Traveller (N 48) HMS Traveller departed Beirut for her 4th war patrol. She was ordered to patrol off Crete.
1944 Sea Rover (P 218) HMS Sea Rover damages two small Japanese vessels with gunfire in the Flores Sea.
1944 Tally-Ho (P 317) HMS Tally-Ho damages a small Japanese motor vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1944 Untiring (P 59) HMS Untiring fires 4 torpedoes against the German torpedo boats TA 18 off the Kassandra peninsula, Greece. All torpedoes miss.
2003 Unicorn (S 43) HMCS Windsor commissioned Halifax NS

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