Stubborn (P 238)
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
| Fate: | Used as a target and sunk in 1946. |
Stubborn (P 238)
Commanders
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Arthur Antony Duff | MID |
| 1946: | Lieutenant | Albert George Davies | DSC |
Ex P81(i)
Submarine Stubborn returns after sinking six U-boats (1944)
Related Pages
Operation Source - September 1943
In September 1943 six in X-Craft were towed by six Submarines to attack German Capital Ships in the Kaa Fjord in Norway. In all (apart from the Towing Submarine Crew) forty-two X- Craft personnel took part in Operation Source, eighteen Passage Crew Members and twenty-four Operational Crew Members.
Events
| 10-09-1941 | Laid Down |
| 11-11-1942 | Launched |
| 20-02-1943 | Completed |
| 02-07-1943 | While on patrol in the Bay of Biscay HMS Stubborn fires torpedoes at a group of 3 German submarines (U-180, U-518, U-530) escorted by two destroyers. The torpedoes however missed their targets. |
| 26-01-1944 | HMS Stubborn fires four torpedoes during an unsuccesful attack on a German convoy off the Follafjord, west of Namsos, Norway. |
| 11-02-1944 | HMS Stubborn torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Makki Faulbaum and torpedoes and damages the German merchant Felix D. some 25 miles north-west of Namsos, Norway. |
| 13-02-1944 | HMS Stubborn unsuccesfully attacks a German convoy of 5 ships off the Folda Fjord, Norway. Stubborn fired 6 torpedoes but none found their target. Stubborn is heavily damaged by the German escort ships and has to be towed home. |
| 25-07-1945 | HMS Stubborn torpedoes and sinks the Japanese patrol vessel Patrol Boat No.2 in the Java Sea. |
| 27-07-1945 | HMS Stubborn sinks a small Japanese vessel with gunfire in the eastern part of the Java Sea. |
| 28-07-1945 | HMS Stubborn sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the eastern part of the Java Sea. |
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