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On This Day - June 6

1915 E 18 (I 98) Completed
1918 H 12 One crewman was killed and two others injured in a friendly fire incident by the Trawler Bracondene.
1940 Unique (N 95) Launched
1941 Torbay (N 79) HMS Torbay damages the Vichy French tanker Alberta with gunfire of Cape Hellas.
1942 Tantalus (P 318) Laid Down
1943 Tactician (P 314) HMS Tactician sinks the Italian sailing vessel Bice with gunfire 5 nautical miles north-east off the Bari lighthouse.
1943 Taurus (P 339) HMS Taurus sinks a Greek sailing vessel with gunfire west of Mitylene, Greece.
1944 Sickle (P 224) HMS Sickle sinks the German merchant Reaumur with gunfire in the Aegean between Andros and Skyros islands.
1951 Sidon (P 259) Departed for Exercise SWX 6 during which Sidon touched bottom during phase 3. The exercise had started after leaving Portland and had ended just before arrival at Loch Tarbart on June 20th. Damage was confined to the net cutter immediately below No 5 and 6 torpedo tubes.
1972 Alderney (P 416) Sold to be broken up for scrap on 6 June 1972.
2017 Torbay (S 90) HMS Torbay entered Gibraltar Naval Base flying her paying-off pennant.

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