HMS Stubborn (P238)

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HMS Stubborn (P238)
Royal Navy
HMS Stubborn (P238) in February 1943
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Seraph class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : September 10, 1941
Launch : November 11, 1942
Commissioning: February 20, 1943
Whereabouts: Sunk as a training target in 1946.
Technical specifications

(see Seraph class )

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

history

The Stubborn ( English : stubborn, stubborn or stubborn ) was a boat of the third batch of the successful S-Class . This lot is also known as the Seraph class . It was launched on September 10, 1941 at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead , northwest England, launched on November 11, 1942 and was commissioned by the Royal Navy on February 20, 1943.

The submarine initially operated in the North Sea and the Bay of Biscay . The Navy later also used the Stubborn in the Asian theater of war .

On July 2, 1943, the spotted HMS Stubborn in the Bay of Biscay at 44 ° 47 '0 "  N , 2 ° 55' 0"  W three of the patrol returning German submarines, the two destroyers escorted were. Stubborn attacked unsuccessfully with a torpedo fan . The German submarines were able to return to Bordeaux unscathed . It was probably U 180 , U 518 and U 530 . The German escort ships belonged to the destroyer 1936 class .

The British submarine attacked a German convoy with four torpedoes west of Namsos ( Norway ) on January 26, 1944 . All torpedoes missed their target.

On February 11, 1944, the Stubborn attacked two German cargo ships with torpedoes 25  nautical miles northwest of Namsos . The Makki Faulbaum  (1907  GRT ) sank, the Felix D.  (2047 GRT) was badly damaged.

On February 13, 1944, the Stubborn attacked a German convoy in front of the Norwegian Foldafjord with a sixfold, unsuccessfully. The escort vessels subsequently covered with water bombs . The submarine lost its trim and was only intercepted at a depth of 165 m , but was able to surface again. The damaged submarine had to be towed to the base in Scotland . The depth reached was the greatest from which an S-class submarine could emerge again. The pressure hull of HMS Stoic was destroyed by water pressure in 1948 during a destruction test at a depth of 183 m . For comparison, the German Type VII C / 42 boats had a guaranteed diving depth of 200 m and a calculated destructive diving depth of 400 m.

On 25 July 1945 the sunken HMS Stubborn east of Bali ( Dutch East Indies ) in the Java Sea at 7 ° 6 '0 "  S , 115 ° 42' 0"  O the Japanese patrol boat No. 2  (ex destroyer  Nadakaze ; 1350  ts ) with a quadruple from which two torpedoes hit. After the sinking, the commander of the British submarine LtCdr.  Albert George Davies to show up to arrest and interrogate a castaway. When one of the Japanese floating in the water made a rude gesture, the Stubborn artillery officer shot him . After the incident, Davis ordered all other Japanese seamen to be shot in order to clear out the witnesses to the crime and had the anti - aircraft machine gun alert. He feared Japanese revenge if his crew were taken prisoner of war. Shortly after the machine gun was ready for action, a Japanese plane was sighted, which is why the Stubborn had to submerge. Davis reappeared the following night. The Japanese shipwrecked were not found.

On July 27 and 28, 1945, the submarine sank two more Japanese transport units in the eastern Java Sea.

The HMS Stubborn was sunk on April 30, 1946 off Malta off Qawra Point as a sonar target. It is about 55 m deep and is now a popular destination for advanced scuba divers .

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

Explanations and references

  1. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship .
  2. ↑ Source: http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/kriegsrecht/schiffbruechige.htm