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On This Day - November 18

1917 K 1 Damaged off Danish Coast after collision with HMS K4. Sunk to avoid capture
1917 L 1 Completed
1937 Taku (N 38) Laid Down
1939 Seahorse (S 98) During the morning HMS Seahorse operating off Terschelling, sighted two Roeder-class destroyers but could not get in an attacking position.
1941 Sealion (N 72) HMS Sealion sinks the Norwegian tanker Vesco off the Laksefjord, Norway.
1941 Safari (P 211) Launched
1942 Trusty (N 45) HMS Trusty torpedoes and damages the Japanese troop transport Columbia Maru near Penang, Malaya.
1942 Porpoise (N 14) HMS Porpoise torpedoes and sinks the Italian tanker Giulio Giordani about 45 nautical miles north-east of Misurata, Libya.
1942 U-331 Already damaged and unable to dive, U-331 was sunk west of Algiers by torpedo from an Albacore from HMS Formidable. There were seventeen survivors, of which five were wounded.
1942 Varne (P 81) Laid Down
1942 Vulpine (P 79) Laid Down
1943 Sickle (P 224) HMS Sickle sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire off Leros island, Greece.
1944 Tally-Ho (P 317) HMS Tally-Ho sinks three Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1947 Anchorite (P 422) Completed

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