HMS Unruffled (P46)
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 HMS Unruffled returning to harbour in Malta after a patrol in the Mediterranean |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | U-class submarine |
| Name: | HMS Unruffled |
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 25 February 1941 |
| Launched: | 19 December 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 9 April 1942 |
| Fate: | scrapped January 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: |
Surfaced - 540 tons standard, 630 tons full load Submerged - 730 tons |
| Length: | 58.22 m (191 ft) |
| Beam: | 4.90 m (16 ft 1 in) |
| Draught: | 4.62 m (15 ft 2 in) |
| Propulsion: |
2 shaft diesel-electric |
| Speed: |
11.25 knots (20.8 km/h) max surfaced 10 knots (19 km/h) max submerged |
| Complement: | 27-31 |
| Armament: |
4 bow internal 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes - 8 - 10 torpedoes 1 - 3-inch (76 mm) gun |
HMS Unruffled (P46) was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Unruffled.
[edit] Career
Unruffled spent most of her eventful wartime career in the Mediterranean, where she sank the Vichy-French merchant Liberia (the former Greek Cape Corso), the Italian auxiliary minesweeper N 10 / Aquila, the Italian merchants Leonardo Palomba, Una, Sant'Antioco, Citta di Catania, and Città di Spezia, the Italian tankers Castelverde and Teodolinda, the Italian sailing vessel Amabile Carolina, the Italian naval auxiliary Z 90 / Redentore, the German merchants Lisboa, Pommern and Baalbeck and the French tanker Henri Desprez. Unruffled also torpedoed and sank the Italian merchant Loreto. She was carrying prisoners of war, 130 of whom were lost.
She also launched failed attacks on the Italian submarine Antonio Sciesa and the small German minesweeper R 212, but her most important target was the Italian light cruiser Attilio Regolo, which was torpedoed by Unruffled on 7 November 1942. 60 feet of bow were blown off, but Unruffled could not sink the cruiser, having by now run out of torpedoes. The damaged cruiser was towed to port by the tug Polifemo, escorted by the torpedo boats Cigno, Lince and Abba. Another attack by HMS United failed, but the Attilio Regolo was out of action for the rest of the war.
In addition to these actions, Unruffled took part in operations Harpoon and Vigorous.
Unruffled survived the war and was scrapped at Troon in January 1946.
[edit] References
- HMS Unruffled (P 46). uboat.net.
- Universal to Untamed. British submarines of World War II.
- 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.
- Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson
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