page_title: HMS Obdurate (G39)
section_title: Second World War
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Obdurate (G39) / Service history / Second World War
caption_attribution_description: IWM caption&#160;: In the distance HMS OBDURATE (centre) leaving a Russian bay, with HMS CUMBERLAND (left) and HMS BELFAST (right) with HMS FAULKNOR alongside. Photograph taken at Vaenga after the arrival of convoy JW 53.
context_page_description: HMS Obdurate was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was built by William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton, being laid down at their yards on the River Clyde on 25 April 1940, launched on 19 February 1942 and commissioned on 3 September 1942.
context_section_description: During the Second World War she escorted Arctic convoys in 1942 and 1944, and Atlantic convoys in 1943, taking part in the Battle of the Barents Sea in 1942.
  In December 1942, while on escort for convoy JW 51B, she was attacked and damaged by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper.
  On 25 January 1944, she was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-360, using a GNAT acoustic torpedo, southeast of Bear Island, while on escort for convoy JW 56A.
  At the end of the war, she escorted the cruiser Norfolk whilst the latter took King Haakon VII back to Norway, followed by post-war work in German waters. On 14 July 1945 US president Harry Truman transferred to Obdurate from the cruiser USS Philadelphia in the English Channel to travel the rest of his journey to the Potsdam Conference.
caption: In the distance Obdurate (centre) leaving a Russian bay, with the cruisers Cumberland (left) and Belfast (right) with Faulknor alongside. Photograph taken at Vaenga after the arrival of convoy JW 53.
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