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On This Day - August 18

1920 P 553 Launched
1932 L 9 Foundered in Hong Kong harbour during a typhoon

HMS L9 broke adrift from a buoy in Hong Kong during a typhoon. The submarine struck a merchant ship and damaged a dockyard wall before foundering. She was later salvaged.
1941 P 33 HMS P33 was lost

On 6th August 1941 HMS P33 sailed from Malta with orders to intercept an Italian convoy bound for Libya.

On 18th August HMS P32 reported hearing a prolonged depth charge attack that lasted for two hours. When the attack was finally over P32 attempted to contact P33 but received no response and it is almost certain that P33 had perished in the attack.
1941 P 32 Sunk by mine off Tripoli
1942 Safari (P 211) HMS Safari torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Perseo near Cape Carbonara, 15 nautical miles south of Serpentara, Sardinia and later attacked the Italian submarine Bronzo.
1943 Spearhead (P 263) Laid Down
1944 Scotsman (P 243) Launched
1945 Statesman (P 246) HMS Statesman torpedoes and sinks a derelict wreck drifting in the Straits of Malacca, described as probably a coaster.
1964 Ausonia (F53) 1921 - 1965 Returned to Portsmouth from Malta & sold to Spanish shipbreakers
1966 Onyx (S 21) Launched
1969 Conqueror (S 48) Launched

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Dreadnought (S 101)

Class: 1963 - 1980: Dreadnought Class
Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: SSN 1
Fate:
By the latter 1970's Dreadnought started to show signs of technical problems and was withdrawn from service under the 1981 defence review.

She was laid up at Chatham and when this base was closed down in 1982 she was towed to Scotland on 13th April 1983.

Decommissioned Rosyth
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Das Boot
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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