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On This Day - March 20

1900 Rosario 1898 - 1921 Commissioned at Sheerness on 20 March, 1900 for service on the China Station
1909 C 19 (I 49) Launched
1909 C 26 (I 56) Launched
1914 W 4 Laid Down
1917 H 27 Laid Down
1918 H 26 Completed
1941 Graph (P 715) Launched
1942 X 3 (Piker) Completed
1944 Graph (P 715) Lost when she ran aground on the west coast of the Island of Islay, Scotland
1944 Unswerving (P 63) HMS Unswerving sinks a Greek sailing vessel with gunfire off Crete.
2025 Dreadnought (S 126) A keel laying ceremony was held in the DDH at Barrow.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer performed the honours as work started on the backbone of the first of four third-generation ballistic missile submarine in Barrow, nearly ten years since the first steel was cut.

To mark the key moment in the boat’s construction and to honour more than 150 years of shipbuilding in the town, 125 of them building submarines for the Royal Navy, His Majesty the King bestowed the honorary title ‘Royal’ on the Port of Barrow

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