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On This Day - April 11

1940 Sealion (N 72) HMS Sealion had her first success with the sinking of the German merchant ship August Leonhardt off the Danish island of Anholt in the Skaggerak.
1940 Triad (N 53) HMS Triad torpedoes and sinks the German troop transport Ionia in the Skagerrak south of the Oslofjord, Norway.
1942 Torbay (N 79) HMS Torbay sinks the Italian sailing vessel Gesu Crocifisso with gunfire north-west of Korfu.
1943 Sibyl (P 217) HMS Sibyl fires four torpedoes against the Italian merchant Fabriano about 10 nautical miles north-north-west of Punta Raisi, Sicily, Italy. All torpedoes missed their target.
1943 Torbay (N 79) HMS Torbay claims the sinking of a sailing vessel with gunfire off Corfu, Greece.
1944 Untiring (P 59) HMS Untiring sinks the German auxiliary minesweeper M 6022/Enseigne south of Cannes, southern France.
1945 Statesman (P 246) HMS Statesman sinks three Japanese barges with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.

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