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On This Day - July 2

1878 Cormorant 1877 - 1889 Commissioned
1915 E 9 (I 89) Attacked and badly damaged the Prinz Adelbert.

For this action Horton was awarded the Order of St. George, Russia's equivalent to the Victoria Cross.
1916 E 26 Lost

On 2nd July 1916 a German Patrol boat reported a trail of oil on the surface just off the Ems that was thought to be emanating from a submarine. The following day German forces attacked a British submarine with both gunfire and bombs. E26 did not return from her patrol. The crew were all lost.
1928 Perseus (N 36) Laid Down
1937 Sunfish (N 81) / V1 (USSR) Completed
1941 Torbay (N 79) HMS Torbay torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Citta di Tripoli in the Zea Channel, Greece.
1941 Urge (N 17) HMS Urge fires four torpedoes at the 6,696 ton BRARENA, which resulted in one hit and the ship sinking
1942 Unseen (P 51) Completed
1943 Stubborn (P 238) While on patrol in the Bay of Biscay HMS Stubborn fires torpedoes at a group of 3 German submarines (U-180, U-518, U-530) escorted by two destroyers. The torpedoes however missed their targets.
1943 Trident (N 52) HMS Trident sinks three sailing vessels with gunfire off Rhodos, Greece.
1943 Rorqual (N 74) HMS Rorqual lays 29 mines off the Gulf of Kassandra, Greece.
1944 Spiteful (P 227) HMS Spiteful sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire north-east of Sumatra.
1945 Selene (P 254) HMS Selene sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire in the Gulf of Siam.
1947 Aurochs (P 426) Aurochs was involved in a collision.

Yards BR 3043: The Development of HM Submarines