HMS Stoic (P231)

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HMS Stoic (P231)
Royal Navy
HMS Stoic (P231) in June 1943
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Seraph class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : June 18, 1942
Launch : April 9, 1943
Commissioning: June 29, 1943
Whereabouts: Destroyed during deep diving tests in 1948.
Technical specifications

(see Seraph class )

HMS Stoic was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

The Stoic ( English: stoic ) was a third batch of the successful S-Class boat . This lot is also known as the Seraph class . The boat was launched on June 18, 1942 at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead , northwest England , was launched on April 9, 1943 and was put into service by the Royal Navy on June 29, 1943.

The Navy used the submarine in the Asian theater of war .

On June 3, 1944, the Stoic sank a Japanese sailing ship with the deck gun off Penang . On June 8, a smaller Japanese unit was sunk in Malakka Street . On June 12, the boat sank before Phuket ( Siam ) at 7 ° 54 '0 "  N , 98 ° 27' 0"  O Japanese Transportation Kainan Maru (1134  GRT ) with torpedoes . The following day the sinking of a Japanese landing craft was reported off Penang. The Stoic destroyed two smaller Japanese units off Penang on June 17. On July 13, she sank the Japanese fishing vessel Nanyo Maru No. 55 with the on-board cannon off Mukomuko (west of Sumatra ) . On October 25th she sank a Japanese coaster with the deck gun in the Java Sea , on October 31st off the northeastern tip of Java ( Dutch East Indies ) at 7 ° 40 '0 ″  S , 114 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  E a Japanese sailing ship with the Deck gun. On the same day, the boat shelled Japanese positions on Jangka Island . On December 16, 1944, the torpedierte Stoic west of the Sunda Strait at 5 ° 45 '0 "  S , 104 ° 43' 0"  O successfully Japanese auxiliary gunboat Shoei Maru (1986 BRT).

The Stoic was used in unmanned deep diving tests in 1948. The boat was crushed at a depth of 183 m. In contrast, the German Type VII C / 42 boats had a guaranteed diving depth of 200 m by the shipyard and a calculated theoretical maximum diving depth of 400 m.

The wreck was lifted in 1950 and then scrapped in Dalmuir, Scotland .

Web links

Commons : British S-Class Submarines  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II. (Technology - Classes - Types. A Comprehensive Encyclopedia). 5th edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .
  • Robert Hutchinson: KAMPF UNDER WASSER - Submarines from 1776 to today , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X
  • Anthony Preston: The history of the submarines , Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen, German edition 1998, ISBN 3-86070-697-7

Explanations and references

  1. ↑ a b The uboat.net states that the Stoic was put into service as June 29, 1943. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives May 31, 1943.
  2. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship .