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On This Day - September 30

1916 E 39 Completed
1936 Sunfish (N 81) / V1 (USSR) Launched
1939 H 34 HMS H-34 fires two torpedoes at the German submarine U-3 15 nautical miles north of Kinnaird Head. The torpedoes miss.
1939 Artifex (F28) 1924 - 1961 Passenger ship Aurania requisitioned by the Admiralty from the Cunard White Star Ltd, Liverpool for conversion to an armed merchant cruiser.
1941 Trident (N 52) HMS Trident fires three torpedoes against the German hospital ship Birka in the Breidsundet about 4 nautical miles north-west of Havaysund, Norway. All three missed.
1941 Urge (N 17) Overnight, HMS URGE took part in an operation to deliver a package to an agent on a beach in the Gulf of Gioia. It turned out that the agent was a double agent and the officer who was paddling ashore to deliver the package was killed by gunfire from the shore.
1941 Taurus (P 339) Laid Down
1943 Sibyl (P 217) HMS Sibyl torpedoes and sinks the German auxiliary minesweeper M 7022/Hummer about 12 nautical miles north-east of Bastia, Corsica, France.
1943 Strongbow (P 235) Launched
1943 Sturdy (P 248) Launched
1954 USS Nautilus The worlds first nuclear reactor powered vessel USS Nautilus is commissioned.
2011 Ambush (S 120) Initial dive test completed in Devonshire Dock

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Class: 1927 - 1946: Parthian Class
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On 6th December 1941 the boat was mined off Cephallonia. The sole survivor was L/S John Capes whose extraordinary escape has become a legend within the Submarine Service
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