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On This Day - June 10

1908 C 30 (I 60) Laid Down
1915 S 3 Launched
1918 L 14 Launched
1921 L 22 Completed
1929 Royalist Laid Down
1940 Grampus (N 56) HMS Grampus departs Malta.
1941 Torbay (N 79) HMS Torbay makes three attack runs on an Italian convoy off the Dardenelles. The first attack at 0940 hours failed to produce any results, the second attack at 1043 hours resulted in a torpedo hit on the Italian tanker Utilitas. Unfortunately the torpedo failed to explode. In the third attack at 1208 hours the Italian tanker Giuseppina Ghirardi as torpedoed and sunk 8 nautical miles off Cape Hellas.
1941 Tempest (N 86) Launched
1941 Una (N 87) Launched
1942 Seraph (P 219) Completed
1943 Safari (P 211) HMS Safari torpedoes and sinks the German transport ship KT-12 off Orosei, Sardinia, Italy.
1944 Tantalus (P 318) HMS Tantalus sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Hiyoshi Maru with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1944 Untiring (P 59) HMS Untiring torpedoes and sinks the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 6078/La Havraise about 12 nautical miles south-west of La Ciotat, southern France.

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