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On This Day - May 31

1906 B 10 (I 20) Completed
1916 K 6 Launched
1916 K 7 Launched
1918 L 16 Completed
1927 Otus (N 92) Laid Down
1934 Shark (N 54) Launched
1940 Dunkirk 68,014 men were evacuated from Dunkirk today. This will be the most successful day of Operation Dynamo.
1940 Seal (N 37) The small Swedish fishing vessel GG 5/Mode hits a mine and sinks. The mine was laid by the British submarine HMS Seal in the Kattegat on 4 May 1940.
1944 Sickle (P 224) HMS Sickle left for a patrol in the northern Aegean
1944 Ultor (P 53) HMS Ultor sinks the German guardvessel FCi 01 with gunfire off Cassis, southern France.
1944 Alaric (P 441) Laid Down
2004 HMS Bulwark Landing ship HMS Bulwark commences sea trials at Barrow

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