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On This Day - March 27

1906 B 7 (I 27) Completed
1918 L 15 Completed
1918 C 4 (I 34) Whilst on the surface charging her batteries, she fired two torpedoes at a U-boat whilst off Beachy Head. The U-boat dived and the assumption was that she had missed.

After the war when all the logs of the U-boats were obtained it was discovered that the attack proved partially successful in that the torpedoes hit the U-boat under the conning tower but had failed to explode.
1928 Phoenix (N 96) Laid Down
1933 Severn (N 57) Laid Down
1942 Strongbow (P 235) Laid Down
1942 Ausonia (F53) 1921 - 1965 Sold to the Admiralty for conversion to a repair ship
1943 Sahib (P 212) HMS Sahib torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Sidamo in Milazzo harbour, Sicily, Italy.
1945 Rorqual (N 74) HMS Rorqual sinks two Japanese coasters and damages a third with gunfire west of Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies.
1945 Amphion (P 439) Completed

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