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On This Day - September 27

1938 Seal (N 37) Launched
1938 Talisman (N 78) Laid Down
1939 Seal (N 37) HMS Seal ended her 2nd war patrol at Aden
1940 Unique (N 95) Completed
1941 Tetrarch (N 77) HMS Tetrarch sinks the Greek sailing vessel Panagiotis Kramottos with gunfire south-west of Milos Island, Greece.
1941 Upright (N 89) HMS Upright torpedoed and sank the Italian torpedo boat Albatros 8 nautical miles north-west of Cape Rasocolmo near Milazzo, Sicily, Italy.
1941 Una (N 87) Completed
1942 Umbra (P 35) HMS Umbra torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Francesco Barbaro some 50 nautical miles south-west of Cape Marathia, Zakynthos Island, Greece.
1943 Uproar (P 31) HMS Uproar torpedoes and further damages the grounded German tanker Champagne off Bastia, Corsica, France.
1944 Thorough (P 324) HMS Thorough sinks a small Japanese vessel north of Sumatra.
1944 Vigorous (P 74) HMS Vigorous torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Salomea and the German ferry SF 121 off Kassandra, Greece.
1962 Onyx (Ojibwa) Laid Down
1965 HMCS Onondaga HMCS Onondaga launched Chatham UK

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Triumph (N 18)

Class: 1935 - 1970: T Class
Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: T 1
Fate:
The boat was mined on or around 21st January 1942. She had earlier struck a mine in December 1940 but miraculously survived.

There were no miracles the second time.
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