From:
SeaWaves Magazine
April 11th 1944
1944 - A USN PB4Y-1 Liberator of VB-108 based on Eniwetok attacks an enemy submarine while on patrol, claiming a sinking. This was undoubtedly HIJMS I-174, which departed on 3 April 1944 from the Inland Sea of Japan for the Marshall Islands. It failed to answer when called 11 Apr 44
1944 - USS Redfin sinks Japanese destroyer HIJMS Akigumo in the eastern entrance to Basilan Strait in the Philippines
1944 - Destroyer escort USS Pratt laid down
1944 - Minesweeper HMAS Junee commissioned
1944 - Sloop INS Hind commissioned
1944 - Destroyer escort USS Fieberling commissioned
1944 - Destroyer escorts USS Delbert W Halsey & Mack launched
1944 - Escort carrier USS Lunga Point launched
1944 - Boom defense vessels HMS Precapt & Baron launched
1944 - Minesweeping trawler HMS Hermetray launched
1944 - During an air raid on Stettin 5 men from U-803 were killed
1944 - Destroyer escort USS Holder irreparably damaged by German Aircraft off Algiers 11 April 1944. Stricken 23 September 23 1944. Parts used to repair USS Menges. Hulk sold on 20 June 1947 and broken up for scrap
1944 - U-2323 laid down
1944 - U-362 was attacked by an RN Martlet aircraft in the Arctic Sea, and damaged so badly that she had to return to base
1944 - On U-802, an accident required the amputation of a crewmember's finger
1944 - On U-1061 a lookout broke his leg during heavy weather
1944 - U-108 sunk at Stettin, by bombs; raised; taken out of service at Stettin 17 Jul, 1944; scuttled there 24 Apr 1945