HMS Stubborn

S class

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Stubborn20 February 1943 — 30 April 1946925 days of the war

S class Particulars

Name: HMS Stubborn
Builder: Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead
Laid down: 10 September 1941
Launched: 11 November 1942
Commissioned: 20 February 1943
Fate: Sunk as ASDIC target, 30 April 1946 (1946)
Status: Wreck

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: 3.35 m (11 ft)
Speed: 14.8 knots (27.3 km/h, 17 mph)
Complement: 48
Main gun: 76 mm (3 in)

HMS Stubborn was a submarine of the S class of the Royal Navy. Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead laid her keel on 10 September 1941. Launched on 11 November 1942, she entered service on 20 February 1943.

She was one of 111 ships of her class.

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 48. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.

She was in commission for 925 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 30 April 1946, at 35°59′N 14°27′E. The wreck survives.

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

Armament and machinery

Armament: 6 × forward 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, one aft
13 torpedoes
one three-inch (76 mm) gun (QF 4-inch on later boats)
one 20 mm cannon
three .303-calibre machine gun

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Stubborn on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Stewart Bale Ltd, Liverpool — This photograph FL 19434 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons