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Statesman (P 246)

Built By: Cammell Laird (Mersey)
Build Group: S3
Fate: Sold for scrapping in 3rd January 1961
Statesman (P 246)
Statesman (P 246)
Statesman (P 246)
Statesman (P 246)
A sad end
A sad end

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Commanders
1943: Lieutenant   Robert George Pierson Bulkeley
1944: Lieutenant   Ronald Max Seaburne-May DSC

1944-1945: Indian Ocean.

Destroyed or damaged 30 vessels total of 5,000 GRT.

Fired last torpedo of WWII on 18th August 1945.

Statesman was modified after the war into a high speed target boat for use in training anti-submarine forces. Her hull and casing was strealined and the gun armament removed. Higher capacity batteries were fitted and her motors uprated.

This boat was loaned to the French Navy for Anti-Submarine Training and renamed Sultane, 1952 to 5th November 1959.

Events

 02-11-1942   Laid Down
 14-09-1943   Launched
 13-12-1943   Completed
 22-08-1944   HMS Statesman torpedoes and sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Sugi Maru No.5 off Port Blair, Andaman Islands.
 06-10-1944   HMS Statesman sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire of the Mergui Archipelago, Burma.
 29-12-1944   HMS Statesman sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire north-east of Sumatra.
 01-01-1945   HMS Statesman sinks fous small Japanese vessels with gunfire north-east of Sumatra.
 06-02-1945   HMS Statesman sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Malakka Strait.
 17-02-1945   HMS Statesman sinks the Japanese trawler Matsujima Maru No.3 and the Japanese coasters Nippon Maru No.19, Nanyo Maru No. 17 and Nippon Maru No.14 with gunfire in the Malakka Strait.
 20-02-1945   HMS Statesman sinks a small Japanese tanker with gunfire in the Malacca Strait.
 05-04-1945   HMS Statesman sinks seven small Japanese landing craft with gunfire and demolition charges in the Strait of Malacca.
 06-04-1945   HMS Statesman sinks three small Japanese landing craft and six sailing vessels with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
 07-04-1945   HMS Statesman sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
 08-04-1945   HMS Statesman sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
 10-04-1945   HMS Statesman sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
 11-04-1945   HMS Statesman sinks three Japanese barges with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
 15-04-1945   HMS Statesman sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
 01-05-1945   HMS Statesman sinks a small Japanese vessel in the Strait of Malacca.
 05-05-1945   HMS Statesman sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
 09-05-1945   HMS Statesman sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with demolition charges in the Strait of Malacca.
 15-05-1945   HMS Statesman sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
 16-05-1945   HMS Statesman torpedoes and sinks the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro.
 26-06-1945   HMS Statesman sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire north of Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies.
 14-08-1945   HMS Statesman sinks 5 Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire and demolition charges in the Strait of Malacca.
 18-08-1945   HMS Statesman torpedoes and sinks a derelict wreck drifting in the Straits of Malacca, described as probably a coaster.
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