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On This Day - April 4

1916 E 46 Launched
1918 C 35 (I 65) 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 C 26 (I 56) 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. The submarine was subsequently salvaged in August 1953
1918 C 27 (I 57) 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.
1940 Narwhal (N 45) HMS Narwhal lays minefield FD 1 (50 mines) in the North Sea.
1942 Stonehenge (P 232) Laid Down
1944 Ultor (P 53) HMS Ultor sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire in the Aegean north-east of Monemvasia, Greece.
1944 Astute (P 447) Laid Down
1944 Auriga (P 419) Laid Down

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