Storm (P 233)
Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
Build Group: | S3 |
Fate: | Scrapped Troon 9/49 |
First Captain was Lieut Edward Young, RNVR. Author of the book, One of Our Submarines
Events
23-06-1942 | Laid Down |
18-05-1943 | Launched |
23-08-1943 | Completed |
12-03-1944 | HMS Storm sinks a small Japanese vessel with gunfire in the Malacca Strait. |
15-04-1944 | HMS Storm torpedoes and sinks the Japanese minesweeper W 7 off the Andaman Islands. |
18-06-1944 | HMS Storm torpedoes and sinks the Japanese auxiliary gunboat Eiko Maru in the Strait of Malacca off off Penang, Malaya. |
20-06-1944 | HMS Storm attacks the German submarine U-1062 with torpedoes in the Malacca Strait. The torpedoes however miss their target. The u-boat had left Penang the previous day. |
23-07-1944 | HMS Storm sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Kiso Maru and two Japanese patrol vessels with gunfire off Port Owen, Andaman Islands. |
01-08-1944 | HMS Storm sinks 4 Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire of the Mergui Archipelago, Burma. |
02-09-1944 | HMS Storm sinks five small Japanese vessels with gunfire. |
29-10-1944 | HMS Storm sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Gulf of Boni, Celebes, Netherlands East Indies |
01-11-1944 | HMS Storm sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Gulf of Boni, Celebes, Netherlands East Indies. |
02-11-1944 | HMS Storm sinks seven Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Gulf of Boni, Celebes, Netherlands East Indies. |
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