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On This Day - August 12

1917 Panama Canal Submarines HMCS CC 1 and CC 2 along with depot ship HMCS Shearwater become first ships flying the White Ensign to transit the Panama Canal
1918 R 9 Launched
1919 L 53 Launched
1922 C 16 (I 46) The previously recovered and refitted submarine was sold for scrap to C A Beard of Upnor
1941 Torbay (N 79) HMS Torbay attacks an Italian convoy 4 nautical miles west of Benghazi, Libya. The four torpedoes fired against the Italian merchants Bosforo and Iseo all miss their targets and Torbay is heavily depth charged following this attack.
1941 O 24 (Dutch) Attacked the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V 111 / Eraldo with gunfire about 20 nautical miles south-southwest of Cagliary Bay, Sardinia, Italy. The action had to be broken off when 24 ran out of ammunition for the deck gun.
1942 Unshaken (P 54) HMS Unshaken sinks the German merchant Georg L.M. Russ off Norway
1942 Porpoise (N 14) HMS Porpoise lays a minefield (46 mines) off Ras el Tin, Libya and torpedoes and sinks the Italian transport Ogaden 9 nautical miles from Ras el Tin, Libya.
1945 Thorough (P 324) HMS Thorough sinks the Malaysian sailing vessel Palange with gunfire off Bali.
2000 Kursk The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and its 118-man crew were lost during naval exercises in the Barents Sea

Yards BR 3043: The Development of HM Submarines