HMS Stonehenge (P232)
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 HMS Stonehenge |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Stonehenge |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead |
| Launched: | March 23, 1943 |
| Fate: | Sunk March 15, 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 814-872 tons surfaced 990 tons submerged |
| Length: | 217 ft (66 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft 6 in (7.2 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Speed: | 14.75 knots surfaced 8 knots submerged |
| Complement: | 48 officers and men |
| Armament: | 6 x forward 21-inch torpedo tubes, one aft 13 torpedoes one three-inch gun (four-inch on later boats) one 20 mm cannon three .303-calibre machine gun |
HMS Stonehenge was an S class submarine of the Royal Navy, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Cammell Laird and launched on March 23, 1943.
She served in the Pacific, where she sank the Japanese merchant vessel Koryo Maru No.2 and the Japanese auxiliary minelayer Choko Maru. She left Trincomalee to patrol in the northern part of the Malacca Straits on February 25, 1944.[1]. She was reported missing after failing to arrive at Ceylon on March 20 as expected. It is not known for sure what caused her sinking, but a mine was considered to be the most likely explanation.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ HMS Stonehenge, Uboat.net
- ^ Submarine losses 1904 to present day, RN Submarine Museum, Gosport
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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