HMS Storm
HMS Storm
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Name | HMS Storm (P233) |
Builder | Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead |
Yard number | J.3067 |
Laid down | 23 June 1942 |
Launched | 18 May 1943 |
Commissioned | 9 July 1943 |
Stricken | 1949 |
Fate | Scrapped September 1949 |
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General characteristics | |
Displacement |
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Length | 217 ft (66 m) |
Beam | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
Draught | 14.3 ft (4.4 m) |
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Speed |
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Test depth | 380 ft (120 m) |
Complement | 6 officers, 43 ratings (at end of wartime commission) |
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HMS Storm 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 18 May 1943. So far, she is the only RN ship to bear the name Storm.
She served in the Far East, from
Career
After sea trials and working up in Holy Loch and Scapa Flow, Storm's first (and uneventful) patrol was to the Norwegian coast, north of the Arctic Circle. The day after Boxing Day 1943 she departed Holy Loch for the long passage to Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) via Gibraltar and the Suez Canal, arriving in Trincomalee on 20 February 1944.[2]
Her first patrol in the Far East was to the
In September 1944 Storm was deployed to
One Of Our Submarines
Before the war Storm's Captain, Edward Young, had been in publishing, and when he returned to the trade he described his wartime service in the book One Of Our Submarines (including his account of the loss of HMS Umpire (N82)).
It was first published in 1952 by Rupert Hart-Davis, with a foreword by Admiral Sir George Creasy. The book was designed by typographer (and RNR) Ruari McLean and the endpapers feature a cross-section diagram of Storm.[9]
The title was later issued in 1954 as the 1,000th publication from Penguin Books, and Young designed the cover.[10] As a 21-year-old office junior before the war, Young had previously designed the famous "triple stripe" standard Penguin cover, as well as the first version of the Penguin logo.[11] A model of HMS Storm is on display in the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport[12] along with the medals won by its captain.
References
- ^ Lt Cdr Freddie Sherwood, a Canadian RNVR officer was the first RNVR officer of any Commonwealth nation to command a submarine, HMS Spiteful.
- ^ Young (1954) pp. 135–192.
- ^ Young (1954) pp. 193–234.
- ^ "Japanese Minesweepers". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- ^ "HMS Storm (P 233) of the Royal Navy - British Submarine of the S class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net". uboat.net. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
- ^ "Eiko Maru".
- ^ Young (1954) pp. 235–282.
- ^ Young (1954) pp. 283–308.
- ^ Young (1952) endpapers.
- ^ Young (1954) back cover.
- ^ van der Dat, Dan (4 February 2003). "Edward Young (obituary)". The Guardian.
- ^ "Model of HMS Storm". Gosport: Royal Navy Submarine Museum. Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Young, Edward (30 July 1954) [1952]. One Of Our Submarines (1st ed.). London: Penguin Books.