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On This Day - November 27

1906 C 12 (I 42) Laid Down
1909 C 20 (I 50) Launched
1914 E 19 (I 99) Laid Down
1940 Uproar (P 31) Launched
1941 Tetrarch (N 77) HMS Tetrarch left Malta on 26th October 1941 bound for Gibraltar. The route she was to take meant her passing through a known minefield. On Monday 27th she communicated with P34 who was in the same area. This was the last contact with the submarine. It is believed that she struck a mine on 27th.
1942 Una (N 87) HMS Una attacked the German merchant Menes with two torpedoes north of the Gulf of Tunis but missed.
1943 Torbay (N 79) HMS Torbay torpedoes and sinks the German troop transport Palma off Karlovasi, Samos, Greece.
1944 Supreme (P 252) HMS Supreme sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire of the Andaman Islands.

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