Daily Event for October 18


October 18, 1919 the submarine H-41, while tied up at Blyth in Northumberland, was sunk after the submarine
depot ship HMS Vulcan passed too close and her propeller hit the boat causing a large hole. All twenty-two men on the boat escaped but the H-41, which had not yet been accepted by the Royal Navy, was sufficiently damaged to be raised and scrapped the following year.
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HMS H-49 (same class as H-41)