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On This Day - May 2

1939 Triumph (N 18) Completed
1940 Trident (N 52) HMS Trident attacks and damages the German merchant Clare Hugo Stinnes with torpedoes and gunfire off the Bjarn fjord, Norway
1943 Uredd (P 41) Uredd embarks on what is to be her last patrol
1943 Safari (P 211) HMS Safari sinks the Italian Sogliola with gunfire off Asinara Island, Italy.
1943 Untamed / Vitality (P 58) Completed
1943 Vox (P 67) / Curie (French) Completed and transferred to the Free French Navy
1944 Ultimatum (P 34) HMS Ultimatum shells the harour of Kalamata, Greece. Two sailing vessels were sunk, five were destroyed on the slips and one was damaged.
1945 P 551 / JastrzÄ…b (Polish) While travelling in an Allied convoy near Norway, Jastrzab strayed some 100 miles off her proper course and was sunk by friendly fire by the destroyer HMS St. Albans (ex-USS Thomas) and the minesweeper HMS Seagull.
1946 Affray (P 421) Completed
1973 Swiftsure (S 126) Left Barrow Shipyard
1976 Warspite (S 103) Warspite suffered a serious fire whilst in Liverpool caused by a broken coupling spraying oil. Repairs and refitting took two years.
1982 Conqueror (S 48) HMS Conqueror became the only nuclear powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes, sinking the cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands War.

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