Top
Home → Boats → On This Day

Events

On This Day - November 19

1909 C 31 (I 61) Completed
1909 C 32 (I 62) Completed
1914 W 1 Launched
1918 H 32 Launched
1918 H 47 Launched
1941 Rorqual (N 74) HMS Rorqual lays 50 mines in the Bay of Biscay near La Rochelle, France.
1941 P 47 / Dolfijn (Dutch) Laid Down
1941 Unruly (P 49) Laid Down
1942 Porpoise (N 14) HMS Porpoise fires a torpedo against the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel F 39/Fertilia off the Libyan coast. The torpedo missed.
1943 Simoom (P 225) HMS Simoon believed lost by mines near the Dardanelles. No survivors

HMS Simoom sailed for a patrol in the Aegean on 2nd November 1943. On the 5th she received a signal to divert to the entrance of the Dardanelles. Ten days later she was sent orders to return to port. The submarine never arrived. On 15th November German radio broadcasts stated that a submarine had been destroyed in the Aegean and that several of the crew had been rescued. It is unlikely that this was Simoom, as it would have put her miles out of position. None of the claimed survivors stated that they were from Simoom. It is more likely that the submarine struck a mine or was lost through an accident.
1943 Sibyl (P 217) HMS Sibyl sinks a Greek sailing vessel with gunfire in the Gulf of Saloniki, Greece.
1943 Sickle (P 224) HMS Sickle torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant (in German service) Giovanni Boccaccio off Monemvasia, Greece.
1944 Stratagem (P 234) HMS Stratagem torpedoes and sinks the the Japanese tanker Nichinan Maru in the Malacca Strait.
1944 Thorough (P 324) HMS Thorough lays mines in the Strait of Malacca.
1948 Sidon (P 259) 19th November 1948 Taken in hand at Portsmouth for fitting ballast.
1964 Scotsman (P 243) Sold for scrap
1969 HMCS Grilse HMCS Grilse (ex-USS Burrfish) sunk as a target off San Clemente, California by USN

Losses Submarine Badges