SUN 23 MAY 1943 Pacific
Motor torpedo boat tender Niagara (AGP-1) is damaged by horizontal bomber while en route from Tulagi to New Guinea, and scuttled by motor torpedo boat PT-147, 11°00'S, 163°00'E.
Motor torpedo boats PT-165 and PT-173 are lost on board U.S. tanker Stanvac Manila when Japanese submarine I-17 torpedoes the tanker (which is transporting the boats) 100 miles south of Nouméa, New Caledonia, 23°45'S, 166°30'E.
Atlantic
British Swordfish from escort carrier HMS Archer sink German submarine U-752 in the North Atlantic with rocket projectiles; she is the first U-boat sunk by those weapons during World War II.
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