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On This Day - June 12

1912 Fearless 1912 - 1921 Launched
1915 E 20 (I 69) Launched
1933 Shark (N 54) Laid Down
1940 Narwhal (N 45) HMS Narwhal lays minefield FD 19 (50 mines) off Haugesund, Norway.
1941 Taku (N 38) HMS Taku torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Silvio Scaroniin the Gulf of Syrte 70 nautical miles off Benghazi, Libya.
1941 Torbay (N 79) HMS Torbay sinks the Italian sailing vessel Gesu E Maria with gunfire off Skyros, Greece.
1941 Unshaken (P 54) Laid Down
1941 O 24 (Dutch) Sank the Italian tanker Fianona off Vada, Toscana, Italy with torpedoes and gunfire.

Also sank the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V 121 / Carloforte with gunfire and ramming 36 nautical miles northwest of Gorgona.
1943 Tarn (P 336) / Tijjerhai (Dutch) Laid Down
1944 Sickle (P 224) Sickle signalled that she had spotted a convoy in the approach to Steno Pass. The convoy suspected the presence of a submarine and dropped two depth charges and, although it seems unlikely that this attack accounted for the loss of the submarine, no further contact was made with her.
1944 Stoic (P 231) HMS Stoic torpedoes and sinks the Japanese transport ship Kainan Maru off Phuket, Siam.
1944 Tiptoe (P 332) Completed
1959 Dreadnought (S 101) Laid Down
2006 Onyx (S 21) Onyx arrives at Barrow where she will eventually become the main attraction at a new Submarine Heritage Centre
2013 Onyx (S 21) After the planned Submarine Heritage Center failed to materialise. Onyx was towed away from her berth at Barrow to begin her journey to the scrapyard
2018 Talent (S 92) HMS Talent began intensive training to re-join the frontline operational fleet after a major refit. The Trafalgar Class submarine had completed an extensive multi-million pound maintenance period in HM Naval Base Devonport in Plymouth.

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