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On This Day - February 19

1902 A 1 Laid Down
1904 A 1 Commissioned
1908 C 13 (I 43) Completed
1916 F 3 (I.A2) Launched
1919 H 44 Launched
1919 L 24 Launched
1929 H 22 Sold for Breaking up
1937 Undine (N 48) Laid Down
1937 Unity (N 66) Laid Down
1937 Ursula (N 59) Laid Down
1940 Sunfish (N 81) / V1 (USSR) HMS Sunfish fired four torpedoes at the German submarine U-14 about 30 nautical miles north-west of Helgoland, Germany. All torpedoes fired missed their target.
1941 Tigris (N 63) HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the French merchant Jacobsen off Bayonne and the French merchant Guilvinec about 90 nautical miles south-west of the mouth of the Gironde estuary.
1942 Truant (N 68) HMS Truant fires 6 torpedoes against the Japanese light cruiser Nagara north of Bali, Netherlands East Indies. All torpedoes missed.
1943 Saracen (P 247) HMS Saracen damages two sailing vessels with gunfire at Cervo, Liguria, Italy.
1944 Unsparing (P 55) HMS Unsparing torpedoes and damages the German merchant Peter in the Aegean north of Skiathos Island.
1974 Sceptre (S 104) Laid Down
2023 Anson (S 123) HMS Anson, the fifth Astute Class submarine, sailed from Barrow-in-Furness to begin her journey to His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde.

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