HMS Sturdy (P248)

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HMS Sturdy (P248)
Royal Navy
HMS Sturdy (P248) in January 1944
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Subtle class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy (RN)
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : December 22, 1942
Launch : September 30, 1943
Commissioning: December 29, 1943
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1958.
Technical specifications

(see Subtle class )

The HMS Sturdy (P248) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II and after.

history

The Sturdy ( English : steadfast or stable ) was a boat of the fourth batch of the British S-Class . This lot is also known as the Subtle class . The submarine was launched on December 22, 1942 at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead , northwest England, was launched on September 30, 1943 and was put into service by the Royal Navy on December 29, 1943. Although the submarine was part of the fourth construction lot, it carried an additional external stern torpedo tube , as is customary with the boats of the third construction lot .

The Royal Navy deployed the submarine under the command of Lt. W.St.G. Anderson in the Pacific War .

On June 29, 1944, a Japanese sailing ship was boarded off the west coast of Siam and destroyed with explosive charges. On July 4, 1944, the Sturdy sank a Japanese tug and three barges with the deck gun in the same sea area . On July 6th and 7th, 1944, two Japanese sailing ships followed, which were also sunk off Siam with artillery or explosive charges.

Off the coast of Burma, the British submarine sank two Japanese sailing ships on August 14, 1944 and a Japanese fishing vessel with the on-board cannon on August 27, 1944.

On October 8, 1944, the HMS Sturdy sank a Japanese coaster in the Gulf of Boni off Celebes ( Dutch East Indies ) . The following day , a small Japanese unit was destroyed off the same Indonesian island that is now called Sulawesi. The recessed on October 13 HMS Sturdy front of Celebes at 4 ° 34 '0 "  S , 121 ° 27' 0"  O the Japanese ships Kosei Maru (99  GRT ) and Hansei Maru (150 BRT). The following day, the Japanese Aviso No. 128 (230 BRT) was sunk off Celebes with the deck gun. Another day later, three Japanese sailing ships followed.

On November 25 and 26, 1944, the Sturdy sank three Japanese sailing ships southeast of Borneo . Three days later she sank two Japanese fishing vessels with artillery on board in the Java Sea at 6 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  S , 112 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  O.

The HMS Sturdy sank a Japanese ship with artillery on December 1, 1944 in the Strait of Makassar . The following day at ° 5 '0 "4  S , 119 ° 32' 0"  O Japanese Aviso no. 142 (200 BRT) sunk with the deck gun. A Japanese sailing ship follows on December 5th in the same sea area.

On March 5, 1945, the submarine sank two small Japanese landing craft in the eastern Java Sea .

The HMS Sturdy was damaged in an explosion on July 9, 1955. It was sold as scrap in July 1957 and broken up in Tyne in May 1958.

See also

  • HMS Sturdy (other British warships named Sturdy )

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 Sturdy was put into service on December 29, 1943. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives November 29, 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 .