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On This Day - April 3

1907 C 9 (I 39) Launched
1918 E 9 (I 89) Deliberately scuttled in the Baltic off Helsingfors to prevent their capture by the German Army.

The Care and Maintenance Party (under Lieutenant Downie) who carried out the scuttling also destroyed all of the stores and torpedoes of the Baltic Flotilla before returning home safely via Petrograd & Archangel.
1918 E 19 (I 99) Deliberately scuttled in the Baltic off Helsingfors to prevent their capture by the German Army. The Care and Maintenance Party (under Lieutenant Downie) who carried out the scuttling also destroyed all of the stores and torpedoes of the Baltic Flotilla before returning home safely via Petrograd & Archangel.
1918 E 1 (I 81) Deliberately scuttled in the Baltic off Helsingfors to prevent their capture by the German Army.

The Care and Maintenance Party (under Lieutenant Downie) who carried out the scuttling also destroyed all of the stores and torpedoes of the Baltic Flotilla before returning home safely via Petrograd & Archangel.
1943 Safari (P 211) HMS Safari sinks the Italian sailing vessel Nasello and the Italian fishing vessel S. Francisco di Paola A. with gunfire off the Gulf of Orosei, Sardinia, Italy.
1943 Trident (N 52) HMS Trident fires 6 torpedoes against a submarine off La Spezia, Italy. All torpedoes missed their target.
1943 Upstart (P 65) Completed
1943 Varne (P 66) / Ula (Norwegian) Completed and commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy as Ula
1944 Ultor (P 53) HMS Ultor sinks four sailing vessels off Kythira Island, Greece.
1945 Thule (P 325) HMS Thule sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire of the west coast of Siam

Losses Submarine Badges