HMS Storm (P233)

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HMS Storm (P233)
Royal Navy
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Seraph class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : June 23, 1942
Launch : May 18, 1943
Commissioning: August 23, 1943
Whereabouts: Sold for scrapping in 1949.
Technical specifications

(see Seraph class )

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

history

The Storm ( ger .: Storm ) was a boat of the third construction lot of the successful S-Class . This lot is also known as the Seraph class . The boat was launched on June 23, 1942 at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead , northwest England, was launched on May 18, 1943 and was commissioned by the Royal Navy on August 23, 1943.

The Navy continued the boat under the command of Lt. Edward P. Young in the Asian theater of war .

On March 12, 1944, Boot sank a small Japanese unit with the deck gun in Malakka Street . On April 15 torpedierte and put the Storm before the Andaman at 11 ° 34 '  N , 93 ° 8'  O the Japanese minesweeper W 7 (738  ts ). On June 18 torpedoed and sank them from Penang ( Malaya ) at 5 ° 59 '  N , 99 ° 10'  O the Japanese auxiliary gunboat Eiko Maru (3011  GRT ). Two days later, the German submarine U 1062 was unsuccessfully attacked with torpedoes in Malakka Street . The Storm recessed on July 23, 1944 before Port Owen (Andaman Islands) at 14 ° 0 '  N , 96 ° 50'  O Japanese military transport Kiso Maru (554 t) and two patrol boats with on-board artillery. On August 1st, four sailing ships were sunk off the Mergui Islands ( Burma ). Five smaller Japanese units followed on September 2. Between October 29 and November 2, the boat sank eleven Japanese sailing ships in the Gulf of Boni ( Sulawesi ).

The Storm was sold for scrapping in 1949 and scrapped in Faslane on Clyde in October of that year .

Web links

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

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 5th edition 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

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b The uboat.net specifies August 23, 1943 for the commissioning of the Storm. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives July 9, 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 .
  3. ↑ See http://www.combinedfleet.com (engl.)