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On This Day - June 18

1883 Vulcan 1889 - 1955 Laid down:
1907 C 9 (I 39) Completed
1913 Royal Arthur 1891 - 1921 Recommissioned at Portsmouth for work with the Third Fleet.
1940 O 13 (Dutch) Presumed lost. Since there are no German records about O13 having been sunk it is assumed that the submarine ran into a mine, a distinct possibility since O13 was patrolling in an area known to have been mined.
1942 Stoic (P 231) Laid Down
1942 P 48 Completed
1944 Storm (P 233) HMS Storm torpedoes and sinks the Japanese auxiliary gunboat Eiko Maru in the Strait of Malacca off off Penang, Malaya.
1945 Trident (N 52) HMS Trident sinks a Japanese landing craft with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1948 Sidon (P 259) Completed refit at Portsmouth.
1964 HMCS Onondaga HMCS Onondaga laid down HM Dockyard Chatham
1974 Alcide (P 415) Sold to be broken up for scrap on 18 June 1974. Scrapped at Hull.

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