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On This Day - April 8

1918 E 8 (I 88) 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 Trident (N 52) HMS Trident torpedoes and sinks the German tanker Stedingen south of the Oslofjord.

On the same day she missed the cruiser Lutsow with a salvo of 10 torpedoes.
1940 Triton (N 15) HMS Triton fires 10 torpedoes against the German cruisers Blecher, Lutzow and Emden off Skagen. All torpedoes missed their targets.
1940 Seal (N 37) Late in the evening HMS Seal collided with the Estonian merchant Otto in thick fog. Seal sustained minor damage and was able to remain on patrol.
1943 Unshaken (P 54) HMS Unshaken torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Foggia 10 nautical miles bearing 46 off Soussa, Tunisia.
1945 Statesman (P 246) HMS Statesman sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1959 Onslaught (S 14) Laid Down
2011 Astute (S 119) A shooting incident occurred onboard HMS Astute alongside in Southampton which resulted in the death of the WEO (Lt Cdr Ian Molyneux), the serious wounding of the MEO (Lt Cdr Chris Hodge), and the arrest of a member of the ships company.

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Triton (N 15)

Class: 1935 - 1970: T Class
Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: T 1
Fate:
On 28 November 1940, Triton left Malta for a patrol in the southern Adriatic Sea. On 6 December, the Italian merchant Olimpia was torpedoed by a British submarine in the area. Her distress message was picked up by the Royal Navy, which assumed that the attack had been carried out by Triton.

The submarine was never heard from again, and was declared lost with all hands on 18 December. Olimpia was successfully towed to port by Italian escort units.

The Italian Navy claimed that Triton was sunk by torpedo boats, probably Confienza, possibly by Clio, but the date cited was several days after contact was lost.

British sources claimed that Triton was sunk by naval mines in the Strait of Otranto
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The Silver Fleet
During the occupation of World War II, the owner of a Dutch shipping port is ordered to attend an interview with the head of the Gestapo.

His yard has almost completed two submarines and the Nazis are anxious to have them finished and fully operational. They offer to reinstate him if he agrees, which he does.

But what the Nazis do not know is that he is planning to double cross them and take the ships to England, if he can. Starring Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers and Esmond Knight.

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