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On This Day - April 12

1916 G 10 (I 2C) Completed
1919 R 10 Completed
1920 Bonaventure (F139) 1892 - 1920 Sold to the Forth Ship Breaking Company, Bo'ness.
1929 Wilk (N 64) (Dutch) Launched
1935 Clyde (N 12) Completed
1940 Snapper (N 39) HMS Snapper sinks the small German tanker Moonsund with gunfire off Larvik, Norway.
1940 Sterlet (N 22) Made an unsuccessful attack on an enemy convoy to the west of ‘The Skaw' (the English name for Skaggen Odde, a sandy peninsula at the northernmost tip of Jutland).
1941 Tetrarch (N 77) HMS Tetrarch torpedoes and sinks the Italian tanker Persiano about 30 nautical miles north-west of Tripoli, Libya.
1941 Upholder (N 99) HMS Upholder was out of torpedoes, but still achieved a minor success by persuading an enemy convoy to turn round by firing a star-shell.
1942 Turbulent (N 98) HMS Turbulent makes a torpedo attack on a submarine off Fiume. The target is not hit.
1942 Urge (N 17) Torpedoes were fired at a two ship convoy. This was unsuccessful as the torpedo tracks were sighted by a flying boat acting as the escort and the ships were warned to slow down and stop.
1943 Ultor (P 53) HMS Ultor fires three torpedoes against a German controlled merchant and the German merchant Nicoline Maersk about 8 nautical miles east of Cape Camarat. All torpedoes miss.
1943 Tally-Ho (P 317) Completed
1944 Untiring (P 59) HMS Untiring torpedoes ans sinks the German merchant Diana 5 nautical miles south of Oneglia.
1945 Stygian (P 249) HMS Stygian sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire near Bali.
1945 Tapir (P 335) The German submarine U-486 was sunk in the North Sea north-west of Bergen, Norway, by torpedoes from the British submarine HMS Tapir. Last sinking by a British Submarine in home waters.
1945 Affray (P 421) Launched
1945 Alcide (P 415) Launched
1945 Alcide (P 415) Completed

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