14 Aug 1943 // Submarine HMS Saracen was depth-charged by Italian corvettes off Bastia, Corsica, and forced to the surface where her crew scuttled her. Two of her crew were lost and 46 were taken prisoner. (Imperial War Museum image A 15998)

Royal Navy submarine HMS Saracen. Image: Imperial War Museum A 15998. Black and white photograph of a harbour crowded with shipping, with cranes and ships in the background and the streets and buildings of the town behind. In the centre foreground is a submarine, viewed from off the port bow. Men are gathered on her forward casing and she is moving very slowly as she approaches her berth.