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May 30th, 1945 (WEDNESDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Salvage vessel HMS Salvigil launched.

U-985 (Type VIIC) which had been heavily damaged on 15 Nov, 1944 at Lister by mine, returned to Kristiansand and taken out of service, is on this day in 1945, transferred from Kristiansand-S to Loch Ryan, Scotland for Operation Deadlight. U-4706 (Type XXIII) is on this day in 1945 transferred from Kristiansand Süd, Norway to Loch Ryan, Scotland and given a British pennant number. Subsequently transferred to Norway in October 1948, to become KNM Knerter. Used for storage by the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club from 14 Apr 1950. Stricken in 1954 and broken up.

IRAN: Tehran: Iran asks Britain, the US and the USSR to withdraw their troops.

JAPAN: Okinawa: US forces advance to Shuri.
Mines previously laid by B-29 Superfortresses of the USAAF's Twentieth Air Force sink a Japanese transport and three freighters off Japan.

CANADA:

HMCS Capilano departed Londonderry for tropicalization refit in Shelburne , Nova Scotia.

HMCS Westmount returned to Halifax from workups at Bermuda.

HMCS Ettrick paid off and returned to RN at Southampton.

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