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On This Day - April 26

1915 J 1 Laid Down
1915 J 5 Laid Down
1915 J 6 Laid Down
1941 Upholder (N 99) HMS Upholder attacked the wreck of the German merchant ship Arta, which had run aground on the sand-banks off Kerkennah in Tunisia. A party was sent aboard and documents were retrieved from the captain's safe, which was blown open using explosives. The party then destroyed the wreck with demolition charges.
1942 Unbroken (P 42) HMS Unbroken damages the Italian sailing vessel Vale Formoso II with gunfire off Bordighera, Liguria, Italy.
1945 HMS Sleuth & HMS Solent The British submarines HMS Sleuth and HMS Solent sink the Japanese auxilary minesweeper Wa 3 with gunfire in the Java Sea west of Kalambau Island
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Tradewind (P 329)


Class: 1935 - 1970: T Class
Built By: Chatham Dockyard (Medway)
Build Group: T 3
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Scrapped on 14th December 1955 at Charlestown
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July 1945. Eighteen young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from a top-secret underwater warfare unit prepare to undertake three audacious missions against the Japanese.

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