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On This Day - March 25

1916 E 55 Completed
1919 J 1 Transferred to Australia
1919 J 2 Transferred to Australia
1919 J 3 Transferred to Australia
1919 J 4 Transferred to Australia
1919 J 5 Transferred to Australia
1940 Seal (N 37) HMS Seal ended her 9th war patrol at Rosyth. A new battery was to be fitted to before she could go out on patrol again.
1941 Rorqual (N 74) HMS Rorqual laid a minefield off Capo Gallo, Sicily, Italy. The next day two ships from a convoy ran into this minefield and sank. Two days later Italian torpedo boat Generale Antonio Chinotto also sank in this minefield
1942 Tally-Ho (P 317) Laid Down
1944 Trump (P 333) Launched
1945 Rorqual (N 74) HMS Rorqual sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire west of Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies.
1947 Acheron (P 411) Launched
1965 HMCS Okanagan HMCS Okanagan laid down Chatham UK
1999 Splendid (S 106) In an operational first, the Royal Navy nuclear attack submarine HMS Splendid launched Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) against an air defense radar site in Yugoslavia during NATO operation Allied Force Wednesday night.

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