HMS Stygian (P249)

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HMS Stygian (P249)
Royal Navy
HMS Stygian (P249) in World War II
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Subtle class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy (RN)
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : January 6, 1943
Launch : November 30, 1943
Commissioning: February 29, 1944
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1948.
Technical specifications

(see Subtle class )

The HMS Stygian (P249) was a British Royal Navy submarine during World War II .

history

The Stygian ( English : Stygian , dark , demonic ) 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 January 6, 1943 at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead , northwest England, launched on November 30, 1943 and was put into service by the Royal Navy on February 29, 1944. 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. GSC Clarabut in the Pacific War .

On September 6, 1944, the HMS Stygian sank a Japanese sailing ship with the deck gun off the coast of Burma . On October 17 and 19, 1944, she sank four smaller Japanese units off Penang .

The British submarine sank a Japanese ship with the on-board cannon on November 28, 1944 off Sabang ( Dutch East Indies ). On December 7, 1944, a Japanese unit sank in the Strait of Malacca .

On January 16, 1945, three Japanese sailing ships were also sunk in Malakka Street. On the following day the recessed Stygian off the coast of the Malay Sultanate Perak at 5 ° 42 '  N , 98 ° 57'  O Japanese Nichinian Maru and a sailing vessel with a deck gun. On January 22, 1945, three more sailing ships followed in Malakka Street.

The HMS Stygian sank a Japanese coaster with artillery on March 24, 1945 north of Bali . On April 2, 1945 in the southern Java Sea before Kangean at 7 ° 2 '  S , 115 ° 32'  O destroyed a Japanese coaster with the deck gun. On April 10 and 12, 1945, a total of three more coasters were sunk.

In addition, the sinking of the Japanese auxiliary minesweeper Wa 104  (175  ts , formerly Dutch Djember ) and the damage to the Japanese auxiliary submarine hunter Cha 104 north of Bali at 8 ° 5 ′  S , 115 ° 6 ′  E are attributed to the Stygian .

The HMS Stygian was sold for scrapping on October 28, 1948 and then scrapped in Faslane-on-Clyde .

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 .