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On This Day - December 4

1906 C 14 (I 44) Laid Down
1913 W 2 Laid Down
1915 J 3 Launched
1916 M 3 Laid Down
1918 HMCS CC-1 HMCS CC-1 paid off Halifax NS.
1928 Ambrose (F08) 1903 - 1946 Paid off into the Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth on 4 December 1928.
1939 Salmon (N 65) The German submarine U-36 was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea south-west of Kristiansand, Norway, by a torpedo from the British submarine HMS Salmon.

The first U-boat to be sunk by a British submarine.
1941 Trusty (N 45) HMS Trusty makes a torpedo attack on Italian torpedo boat Orsa west of Zakynthos island, Greece. All torpedoes missed.
1941 Truculent (P 315) Laid Down
1942 Traveller (N 48) HMS Traveller sunk

On 28th November HMS Traveller was carrying out a reconnaissance patrol of the coast of Taranto as part of operation Portcullis (an attack on Italian battleships in Taranto Harbour using chariots) The submarine did not return from the operation and was probably mined on or about 4th December.
1942 Seraph (P 219) HMS Seraph fires 4 torpedoes against a convoy about 20 nautical miles west of Marettimo Island, Italy, missing the German transport ship Ankara.
1944 Shalimar (P 242) HMS Shalimar sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1969 Revenge (S 27) Completed
1987 Victorious (S 29) Laid Down
2009 Trafalgar (S 107) Decommissioned. The first vessel of her class to be taken out of service.

Trafalgar became the ninth decommissioned submarine to be stored in Plymouth while an ongoing MoD study decides how to dispose of them.
2016 Audacious (S 122) Naming ceremony held in the Devonshire Dock Hall at Barrow where Audacious is officially named by her sponsor Lady Elizabeth Jones

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