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On This Day - June 13

1889 Vulcan 1889 - 1955 Launched
1914 E 8 (I 88) Completed
1916 E 38 Launched
1938 Tuna (N 94) Laid Down
1940 Grampus (N 56) HMS Grampus laid a minefield off Augusta, Sicily. She had left Malta on the 10th
1940 Grampus (N 56) HMS Grampus attacks the Italian submarine Giovanni Bausan and the Italian torpedo boat Polluce with torpedoes. The attack however fails. Grampus also laid a minefield (50 mines) off Augusta, Sicily, Italy.
1942 Unison (P 43) HMS Unison fires four torpedoes at the Italian light cruisers Raimondo Montecuccoli and Emanuelle Filiberto Duca d'Aosta south of Sardinia, Italy. The torpedoes miss.
1943 Ultor (P 53) Submarine Ultor bombards the D/F station, Lipari Islands
1944 Stoic (P 231) HMS Stoic claims to have sunk a landing craft with gunfire off Penang.
1945 O 24 (Dutch) Attacked the Japanese torpedo boat Kiji about 70 nautical miles west-southwest of Makassar. Four torpedoes were fired but all missed. O24 was depth charged following this failed attack.

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