HNoMS Uredd (P-41)
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- For the present Royal Norwegian Navy submarine Uredd, please see HNoMS Uredd (S305).
 HNoMS Uredd at Scapa Flow |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | U-class submarine |
| Name: | HMS P41 |
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Launched: | 24 August 1941 |
| Out of service: | transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy |
| Career |  |
| Name: | HNoMS Uredd |
| Commissioned: | 12 December 1941 |
| Fate: | sunk 24 February 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: |
Surfaced - 540 tons standard, 630 tons full load Submerged - 730 tons |
| Length: | 58.22 m (191 feet) |
| 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 max surfaced 10 knots max submerged |
| Complement: | 27-31 |
| Armament: |
4 bow internal 21 inch torpedo tubes - 8 - 10 torpedoes 1 - 3 inch gun |
HMS P41 was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong. She was transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy before completion and renamed HNoMS Uredd. She has so far been the only Norwegian submarine ever lost.
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[edit] Career
She was transferred to Norwegian command on 7 December 1941. She served mostly as a patrol craft off the coast of Nazi-occupied Norway, eventually completing a total of seven successful missions for the Royal Norwegian Navy, sinking several German ships. She was destroyed by a minefield in February 1943.
In February of 1943 she was assigned, under the presumed command of Rolf Q. Røren, to drop off five Kompani Linge Special Agents at Bodø as part of Operation Seagull - and then proceed to Senja to pick up two French submariners that had been left behind by the Junon.
In 1985, HNoMS Tana discovered the wreckage of the Uredd southwest of Fugløyvær and confirmed that she had hit a German minefield laid by the German minelayer Cobra - killing 34 crew and six Special Agents. The following year, King Olav V unveiled a memorial to those lost aboard the Uredd, located in Grensen.
The wreck is officially a war grave.
[edit] Crewmen
[edit] Special Ops Agents
- Cpl. Sverre Granlund - had served as a commando during Operation Musketoon
- Sgt. Thorlief Daniel Grong
- Lt. Per Getz
- Pte. Eivind Dahl Eriksen
- Pte. Hans Rohde Hansen
- Tobias Skog
[edit] Submariners
- Sb-Lt. Edwin Conde - Royal Navy
- Sig. Victor Habgood - Royal Navy
- Tlg. Jack Barker - Royal Navy
[edit] References
- HNoMS Uredd (P 41). uboat.net.
- P32 to P222. 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
[edit] External links
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