A summary of the later days of Stubborn's war!
11 Feb 44, in the Fro Havet area, Norway, sank Makki Faulbaums, 1,907 grt, and Felix, 2,047 grt. Attacked a convoy 13-Feb-44 off Trondheim, Norway, and severely depth-charged. After hydroplane jammed to dive and the boat dived to 400ft before shooting to the surface, in sight of the enemy and diving again, this time to over 540ft (200ft more than test depth). The boat survived the depth-charge attack and surfaced more than seven hours later with an estimated bow-up angle of 60-70 degrees. Despite damaged ballast tanks, destroyed ASDIC and broken rudder, she managed to make her way home. Home Fleet mobilized to bring her home: At 1455 on 16 Feb, the destroyers HMS Musketeer and Scourge were in company, the tow being finally secured early on the 17th. Eleven hours later the tow parted, but by ingeniously listing the submarine forward and to one side Stubborn was induced to proceed more or less in the right direction at about 7 knots. On the 18th an escort of Beaufighters and later the trawler Narvik joined the escort which had been reinforced by the destroyers HMS Meteor and Swift. These two last, however, left that evening. Further attempts to tow were made by the two destroyers on the 19th and at 0945 on the 20th; Stubborn was safely berthed at Lerwick, Shetland.
Joined Eastern Fleet - Sank Japanese patrol boat No.2 (formerly the destroyer Nadakaze), off Surabaya in the Java Sea 25-Jul-45, two of four torpedoes hitting home. During this patrol Stubborn searched and destroyed cargo from various junks and sunk others, for at this late stage of war, large ships were very scarce and the Japanese were using any sailing craft they could find to move vital cargo. On 30 Jul 45 Stubborn bombarded Bewleleng Roads, off northern Bali, causing damage to slipways and landing craft before action had to be broken off with the appearance of an aircraft.
Sunk as A/S target off Malta in 1946.