Events
On This Day - May 22
1515 | Talbot / Medway II 1951 - 1946 | Launched |
1915 | E 11 (I 91) | Sustained damage to one of her periscopes during an engagement with the Turkish gunboat Pelenki Deria on 22nd May 1915. Nasmith despatched the gunboat with a torpedo but the crew continued to fire at E11's periscope as their ship sank beneath them. One shell took a neat piece out of the periscope and for the rest of the patrol Nasmith had to operate with only one periscope. During this patrol on the 25th May Nasmith entered Constantinople harbour and carried out attacks on shipping. |
1917 | K 14 | Completed |
1924 | P 556 | Commissioned |
1929 | Perseus (N 36) | Launched |
1942 | Wolfe (F37) 1920 - 1952 | Recommissioned as a submarine depot ship |
1943 | Unshaken (P 54) | HMS Unshaken sinks the Italian sailing vessel Giovanni G. with gunfire off Augusta, Sicily, Italy. |
1944 | Sea Rover (P 218) | HMS Sea Rover torpedoes and sinks the Japanese auxiliary gunboat Koshu Maru off the southern entrance to Penang harbor. |
1944 | Variance (P 85) | Launched |
1947 | Artful (P 456) | Launched |
1971 | Courageous (S 50) | Began Sea Trials |