HMS Storm

British S-class submarines (1931)

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Storm (P233)9 July 1943 — 1949786 days of the war

British S-class submarines (1931) Particulars

Name: HMS Storm
Builder: Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead
Laid down: 23 June 1942
Launched: 18 May 1943
Commissioned: 9 July 1943
Struck: 1949
Fate: Scrapped September 1949 (1949)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 872 long tons (886 t)
Displacement, submerged: 990 long tons (1,006 t)
Length: 66.14 m (217 ft)
Beam: 7.01 m (23 ft)
Draught: 4.36 m (14.3 ft)
Speed: 14.8 knots (27.3 km/h, 17 mph)
Complement: 49
Main gun: 76 mm (3 in)

HMS Storm was a submarine of the British S-class submarines (1931) of the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead on 23 June 1942. Launched on 18 May 1943, she entered service on 9 July 1943.

111 ships of the class were built.

The boat displaced 872 long tons surfaced and 990 long tons submerged. She measured 66.1 m (217 ft) long with a beam of 7.0 m (23 ft). Her designed speed was 14.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 49. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.

She was in commission for 786 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register in 1949.

She was broken up for scrap in September 1949.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: Diesel engines: 2x8 cylinder 950hp Brotherhoods.
Electric motors: Metro-Vickers.
Armament: 6 × forward 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, one aft
13 torpedoes
one three-inch (76 mm) gun
one 20 mm Oerlikon cannon
three .303-calibre machine gun

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Storm on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer - unnamed — Royal Navy — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons