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On This Day - June 27

1918 L 11 Completed
1922 P 555 Launched
1940 Orpheus (N 46) Declared overdue. The likely cause of her loss with all hands is that she was mined off Benghazi.
1941 Triumph (N 18) HMS Triumph on patrol off the Egyptian coast sinks the Italian submarine Salpa
1942 Saracen (P 247) Completed
1942 Taurus (P 339) Launched
1943 Trident (N 52) HMS Trident sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire north of Crete.
1943 Osiris (N 67) HMS Osiris sinks the Italian sailing vessel Vittorina with gunfire north of Crete.
1944 Sea Rover (P 218) HMS Sea Rover sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire off Penang.
1944 Truculent (P 315) HMS Truculent sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Malacca Strait.
1944 Ultor (P 53) While on patrol off Nizza, southern France HMS Ultor torpedoes and sinks the German tankers Felix 1 and Tempo 3.
1945 Thermopylae (P 355) Launched
1952 Sidon (P 259) Refit completed HMS Sidon re-commissioned into the 2nd Submarine Squadron, based at Portland for submarine and anti-submarine training

In "A Submariner's story" commissioning engineer officer Joel C E Blamey tells how the first trial dive out of the yard ended up with Sidon plunging down with a severe bow down angle striking the shingle bottom at 158 feet. A dockyard modification had caused a complete loss of the telemotor pressure resulting in the loss of control of the main vents and hydroplanes and other equipment. While quite frightening no serious damage was done.

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