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On This Day - August 31

1916	G 14 (I 6C)	Completed

1928	Otus (N 92)	Launched

1929	Maidstone 1912 - 1929	Sold

1939	Undine (N 48)	HMS Undine departed Blyth to take up a patrol position in the Heligoland Bight. When war broke out between Britain and Germany this became her 1st war patrol.

1941	Upholder (N 99)	HMS Upholder fires torpedoes from long range against the Italian troop transports Oceania and Neptunia off the Tunisian coast. All torpedoes missed.

1943	Torbay (N 79)	HMS Torbay sinks the Italian sailing vessel Columbo with gunfire 15 nautical miles west of Kos, Greece.

1944	Tantalus (P 318)	HMS Tantalus sinks a Siamese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca and damages another.

1944	Vox (P 73)	HMS Vox sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire off Crete.

1944	Amphion (P 439)	Launched

1950	Sidon (P 259)	Towed the midget submarine "XE8" from Portsmouth to Plymouth. She also joined the 2nd Submarine Flotilla on this date.

1957	Selene (P 254)	HMS Selene sinks five fishing boats (by accident) in the river Yare at Great Yarmouth in 1957 at the end of its paying off visit.

2022	Anson (S 123)	Commissioned into the Royal Navy during a ceremony in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Wednesday's traditional naval ceremony was attended by a number of dignitaries, including the submarine's Lady Sponsor, Julie Weale, the Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace. Mr Wallace highlighted the "significant milestone" that this commission is in the UK and for Australia's preparation to "confront growing threats to the liberal democratic order, especially in the Indo Pacific".

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Seraph (P 219)

Class:	1935 - 1970: Improved S Class
Built By:	Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group:	S3
Fate:
Sold and scrapped, Briton Ferry, 20th December 1965.

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