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On This Day - April 30

1917 K 15 Completed
1934 Salmon (N 65) Launched
1940 Seal (N 37) HMS Seal departed Immingham for her 11th war patrol. she was ordered to lay a minefield south of the Swedish island of Vinga in the Kattegat, across a German convoy route to Norway.
1940 Uproar (P 31) Laid Down
1943 Rorqual (N 74) HMS Rorqual lays 50 mines off Isola Marettimo, to the west of Sicily, Italy.
1945 Torbay (N 79) HMS Torbay sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with scuttling charges in the Strait of Malacca.
1968 Dreadnought (S 101) First commission came to an end
1986 Vanguard (S 28) Order announced by Norman Lamount, Secretary of State for Defence Procurement

Losses Submarine Badges