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On This Day - December 27

1915 E 31 Completed
1916 K 10 Launched
1940 Rorqual (N 74) The Italian merchant Caffaro is damaged north-west of Tripoli, Libya, when she hits a mine laid on 5 November 1940 by the British submarine HMS Rorqual.
1940 Trident (N 52) HMS Trident fires five torpedoes against a darkened ship that entered Punta Delgada, Azores. All five torpedoes missed their target.
1942 Safari (P 211) HMS Safari sinks the Italian sailing vessel Eleonora Rosa with gunfire about 10 nautical miles south of Sousa, Tunisia.
1944 Tudor (P 326) Lt S A Porter, DSC sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire of the west coast of Burma.
1945 Sidon (P 259) Paid off into Reserve Group "S" at Portsmouth attached to the 5th Submarine Flotilla

Losses Submarine Badges