HMS United (P44) ( United ) is a British U- type diesel submarine (third group). Built at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness. Participated in the Second World War . The only submarine (and the only ship of the Royal Navy of Great Britain) that bore this name.
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| Title | Hms united |
| original name | HMS United (P44) |
| Class and type of vessel | type U |
| Organization | UK Navy |
| Manufacturer | Vickers-armstrong |
| Construction started | February 25, 1941 |
| Launched | December 18, 1941 |
| Commissioned | April 2, 1942 |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | February 1946 |
| Status | scrapped February 12, 1946 |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 540 t |
| Full displacement | 630 t |
| Length | 58.22 |
| Width | 4.9 |
| Draft | 4.62 |
| Engines | two Paxman Ricardo diesel engines and two electric motors (power 825 hp.) |
| Surface speed | 11.25 knots |
| Underwater speed | 10 knots |
| Crew | from 27 to 31 people |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 76 mm deck gun |
| Mine torpedo armament | 4 x 533 mm torpedo tubes (8 to 10 torpedoes) |
Service
The submarine served in the Mediterranean most of the time. On her account the following sunken ships - the Italian merchant ship Rostro , the Italian submarine hunter V-39 Giovanna , the destroyer Bombardier ”, The French merchant ship“ Ste Marguerite ”( Ste Marguerite , the former Norwegian ship“ Ringulf ”) and the Italian merchant ship“ Olbia ”( Olbia ). United also excelled in the Sicilian operation , finding the submarine Remo ", Which surfaced and fired four torpedoes at it: one torpedo hit the middle of the Remo, and after the explosion, the submarine sank for several minutes. Only four people escaped: the captain of the submarine Vassalo, two more people from the captain’s bridge and sergeant Dario Cortopassi, who managed to leave the engine room.
In addition, on the account of United torpedoed Italian transport Rosolino Pilo ( Rosolino Pilo ), previously damaged by torpedo boats, the Italian tanker Petrarca ( Petrarca ), as well as the damaged merchant ship Ravenna ( Ravenna ), which boarded stranded after the air raid on September 29, 1942 . Also, the submarine November 8, 1942 unsuccessfully tried to attack the light cruiser Attilio Regolo , which had previously been destroyed after a torpedo attack on the submarine HMS Unruffled .
On February 12, 1946 , United was cut into metal in Trun.
Literature
- Colledge, JJ; Warlow, Ben. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy. - London: Chatham Publishing, 2006 .-- 416 p. - ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8 .
- Hutchinson, Robert. Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day. - London : HarperCollins , 2001 .-- ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8 .
Links
- HMS United (P 44) . uboat.net .
- Undaunted to Unity . British submarines of World War II . Archived on September 19, 2008.