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1905 A 12 (I 02) Completed
1911 D 8 (I 78) Launched
1914 E 16 (I 96) Launched
1916 G 13 (I 5C) Completed
1918 L 20 Launched
1925 X 1 Completed
1930 Orpheus (N 46) Completed
1941 Triumph (N 18) HMS Triumph torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Luvsee north-east of Sibenek.
1943 Sibyl (P 217) HMS Sibyl torpedoes and sinks the French (in German service) merchant St.Nazaire about 8 nautical miles west of Sestri Levante, Italy.
1943 Tudor (P 326) Launched
1944 Trenchant (P 331) The German submarine U-859 is sunk north-west of Penang in the Straits of Malacca by torpedoes from HMS Trenchant.
1944 Vampire (P 72) HMS Vampire fires 4 torpedoes against the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 2102. All torpedoes miss.
1965 Onyx (Ojibwa) Completed
2021 Audacious (S 122) HMS Audacious was commissioned into the Royal Navy following a ceremony at Her Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde. Audacious becomes the fourth Astute-class submarine to be commissioned into the Royal Navy fleet

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Taku (N 38)

Class: 1935 - 1970: T Class
Built By: Cammell Laird (Mersey)
Build Group: T 1
Fate:
Heavily damaged by a mine in April 1944 and was retired from service.

Scrapped in November 1946 at Llanelly.
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