HMS Obdurate (G39)

HMS Obdurate (G39) 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. 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. At the end of the war she escorted HMS Norfolk (78) 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 the Obdurate from USS Philadelphia in the English Channel to travel the rest of his journey to the Potsdam Conference.

Her final years were spent in reserve at HMNB Portsmouth and Chatham Dockyard. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. She was finally decommissioned in 1964 and sold for scrap later that year.