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On This Day - December 1

1588 The Chatham Chest The first attempt to organize welfare provision for Royal Navy seamen was established - the Chatham Chest.

Contributions were deducted from sailors pay and placed in the chest, which had five different locks, the keys being held by five officers, in a (not very successful) attempt to avoid corruption, with sums disbursed to seamen in distressed circumstances
1884 Forth 1886 - 1921 Laid down
1913 F 1 (I A0) Laid Down
1914 E 14 (I 94) Completed
1914 E 23 Laid Down
1914 E 29 Laid Down
1914 E 30 Laid Down
1914 E 31 Laid Down
1914 E 37 Laid Down
1914 E 38 Laid Down
1914 E 39 Laid Down
1914 E 40 Laid Down
1914 E 42 Laid Down
1914 E 55 Laid Down
1914 E 56 Laid Down
1914 G 6 (I A8) Laid Down
1914 G 14 (I 6C) Laid Down
1916 E 37 Lieutenant Commander Robert Fellowes Chisholm had sailed from Harwich in company with E54 (Lieutenant Commander Robert Raikes). It is thought that E37 was lost in a minefield off Orford Ness.
1916 M 4 Laid Down
1917 R 9 Laid Down
1917 R 11 Laid Down
1917 R 12 Laid Down
1918 R 2 Completed
1923 O 9 (Dutch) Laid down
1930 Swordfish (N 61) Laid Down
1941 Regent (N 41) HMS Regent torpedoes and damages the Italian merchant Enrico about 10 nautical miles south-east of Marettimo island, Italy.
1942 Ursula (N 59) HMS Ursula sinks the Italian auxiliary submarine chaser V 135/Togo with scuttling charges some 15 miles south of Cape Mele, Corsica, France.
1942 Sickle (P 224) Completed
1944 Sturdy (P 248) HMS Sturdy sinks a Japanese vessel with gunfire in Makassar Strait.
1944 Supreme (P 252) HMS Supreme sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire of the Andaman Islands.
1944 Vortex (P 87) / Morse (French) Completed and Transferred to the Free French Navy
1944 O 9 (Dutch) Decommissioned
1946 Vortex (P 87) / Morse (French) Returned to Royal Navy from the Danish Navy
1948 O 23 (Dutch) Decommissioned
1982 Turbulent (S 87) Launched

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