Events
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 |
