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On This Day - May 5

1909 C 22 (I 52) Completed
1909 C 23 (I 53) Completed
1909 C 24 (I54) Completed
1915 V 1 Completed
1917 P 512 Laid Down
1920 P 552 Commissioned
1928 Odin (N 84) Launched
1930 Poseidon (N 99) Completed
1938 HMS Maidstone Submarine depot ship HMS Maidstone commissioned
1938 Maidstone (F44) 1937 - 1978 Commissioned
1939 Triad (N 53) Launched
1939 Truant (N 68) Launched
1940 Seal (N 37) The small Swedish fishing vessel GG 256 / Almy hits a mine and sinks. The mine was laid by the British submarine HMS Seal in the Kattegat on 4 May 1940.
1943 Tactician (P 314) HMS Tactician sinks the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V17/Pia with gunfire about 10 nautical miles west of Grosseto, Italy.
1943 Sea Devil (P 244) Laid Down
1944 Unswerving (P 63) HMS Unswerving sinks three sailing vessels with gunfire in the Gulf of Nauplia, Greece.
1945 Scythian (P 237) HMS Scythian sinks a small Japanese vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1945 Statesman (P 246) HMS Statesman sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1955 Minnow (X 54) Launched
1962 Ocelot (S 17) Launched

Losses Submarine Badges