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On This Day - March 19

1886 Mercury 1878 - 1919 Laid down at Pembroke Dockyard
1908 C 16 (I 46) Launched
1917 H 29 Laid Down
1934 X 2 (P 711) Launched
1937 Triumph (N 18) Laid Down
1940 Sterlet (N 22) HMS Sterlet sailed from Harwich for her 6th war-patrol. She was once again ordered to patrol in the North Sea.
1941 Truant (N 68) HMS Truant attacks the small Italian tanker Labor off Buerat, Libya. All torpedoes missed.
1942 Upholder (N 99) HMS Upholder sinks the Italian auxiliary minesweeper B.14/Maria with gunfire, about 20 nautical miles south of Brindisi, Italy.
1943 Tireless (P 327) Launched
1943 Token (P 328) Launched
1944 Unswerving (P 63) HMS Unswerving fires four torpedoes against the German merchant Gertrud off Cape Maleas, Greece. All torpedoes missed.
1945 Venturer (P 68) Torpedoed and sank the German merchant Sirius off Namsos, Norway.
1945 Selene (P 254) HMS Selene damages a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire north-east of Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies.
1945 Thrasher (N 37) HMS Thrasher sinks three Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire of the west coast of Siam.

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