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On This Day - June 31

1911	Arrogant 1886 - 1923	Recommissioned at Portsmouth as she completed conversion to a depot ship.

1916	F 3 (I.A2)	Completed

1916	J 2	Completed

1916	M 1	Laid Down

1917	L 70	Laid Down

1919	L 23	Launched

1920	St George 1891 - 1920	Sold

1941	Sportsman (P 229)	Laid Down

1943	Sportsman (P 229)	HMS Sportsman attacks a landing craft with gunfire in the Ligurian Sea off Porto Maurizio. The attack had to be broken off because the gun jammed.

1945	Sea Scout (P 253)	HMS Sea Scout sinks a Japanese tug, five barges and a coaster with gunfire in the Gulf of Siam.

1945	Supreme (P 252)	HMS Supreme attacks with gunfire what is thought to be a Japanese auxiliary patrol vessel in the Gulf of Siam.

1945	Trump (P 333)	HMS Trump sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire north of Bali, Netherlands East Indies.

1946	Vox (P 67) / Curie (French)	Returned to the Royal Navy

1957	Tudor (P 326)	The funeral of two crew members from the submarine HMS Pandora took place. HMS Pandora was raised and beached in Kalkara Creek. In 1957 the submarine was broken up and during the breaking up the skeletons of two crew members were found. These remains were buried at sea from HMS Tudor. The burial service was read by the former Commanding Officer of HMS Pandora, Captain R L Alexander DSO, Royal Navy.

1957	Pandora (N 42)	The funeral of two crew members from HMS Pandora took place. HMS Pandora was raised and beached in Kalkara Creek. In 1957 the submarine was broken up and during the breaking up the skeletons of two crew members were found. These remains were buried at sea from the submarine, HMS Tudor. The burial service was read by the former Commanding Officer of HMS Pandora, Captain R L Alexander DSO, Royal Navy.

1971	Artemis (P 449)	Submarine Artemis founders whilst alongside at Dolphin

1981	Trafalgar (S 107)	Launched

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Unseen (P 51)

Class:	1936 - 1958: U Class
Built By:	Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group:	U2
Fate:
Scrapped in September 1949 at Hayle.

Autumn 1941: U96 departs for enemy flight in La Rochelle, France. In the steel belly of the submarine, 50 men crowd close, among them the young Lieutenant Werner, who came on board as a war correspondent. What begins as a quiet routine company soon turns into hell after the first shelling.

Trapped between fire and water, between fear and despair, between life and death, the team of the U96 experiences up close the destructive cruelty of the beast war. He's gonna change them all. If they survive it.

You don't have to say many words about “Das Boot” anymore: Wolfgang Petersen's dramatic film adaptation of Lothar Günther Buchheim's success novel was the first true blockbuster in German cinema history. “Das Boot” made his director an international star and his largely unknown actors into familiar faces. “Das Boot” was celebrated worldwide and was nominated for the Oscar six times.

Four years later, the six-part TV series was released, which takes an even more detailed and unobstructed look at the crew and their experiences on board the U96. In 1997, the director's cut was released in terms of cut, image and sound. Intensive atmosphere and nerve-scattering tension created a milestone in German film and television history!

Disc 1 The Boat - Director's Cut (Blu-ray)
Disc 2 The Boat - Cinema (Blu-ray)
Disc 3-4 The Boat - TV Series (Blu-ray) Disc 5 Bonus Material (Blu-ray)
Disc 6 Soundtrack (Audio CD)
Disc 7-8 Audiobook (MP3 CD) Bonus Material:Original Soundtrack, Audiobook to the novel, read by Dietmar Baer,

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