Events
On This Day - June 25
| 1915 | H 8 | Completed |
| 1915 | E 12 (I 92) | E12 she sighted a passenger steamer towing two sailing ships. Lt Cdr Bruce took E12 alongside. He sent Lt T Fox to board her. One of the Turkish crew dropped a bomb over the side which hit the casing but failed to explode. The Turks then started firing with rifles. E12 used her gun to fire on the after end of the steamer, then put ten rounds into her from forward to aft. The two sailing ships tried to foul E12's propellers and opened fire with rifles. E12's crew fired back and stopped the attack from the sailing ships. Lt Cdr Bruce moved away from the ships them sank all three of them. E12 immediately attacked another steamer towing three sailing ships. The steamer fired back and a shore battery opened fire on E12. The steamer was hit, caught fire and later beached herself. During these actions, only one man on E12 was injured. Lt T Fox, the Coxswain and three seaman all received the DSM. |
| 1921 | K 15 | K15 was moored alongside the light cruiser HMS Canterbury, in the tidal basin at Portsmouth. Most of the crew were on leave when a watch keeper discovered that the submarine was sinking, with the stern already awash. The watch were quickly roused and scrambled aboard the Canterbury. The submarine slowly submerged amid streams of bubbles. The accident was caused by hydraulic oil expanding in the hot weather and contracting as the temperature dropped causing a loss of hydraulic pressure and causing vents to open. |
| 1940 | Snapper (N 39) | HMS Snapper torpedoes and sinks the German armed trawler V 1107/Portland south of Stavanger, Norway. |
| 1941 | Parthian (N 75) | HMS Parthian torpedoes and sinks the French submarine Souffleur during the Syrian campaign. |
| 1943 | O 23 (Dutch) | O23 carries out Special Operation Gustavus II. A rendezvous, south of the Sembilan Islands, was made with a junk to transfer 2 British army officers and 3 Chinese. Some of the crew of the junk were taken on board O23 for return passage to Colombo |
| 1944 | Truculent (P 315) | HMS Truculent sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Malacca Strait. |
| 1945 | Selene (P 254) | HMS Selene sinks two Japanese coasters and a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Gulf of Siam. |
| 1945 | Alderney (P 416) | Launched |
| 1946 | Tabard (P 342) | Completed |
