HMS Uproar

U-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Uproar2 April 1941 — 13 February 19461,614 days of the war

U-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Uproar
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down: 30 April 1940
Launched: 27 November 1940
Commissioned: 2 April 1941
Fate: Sold to be broken up for scrap 13 February 1946 (1946)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 540 long tons (549 t)
Displacement, submerged: 730 long tons (742 t)
Length: 58.22 m (191 ft)
Beam: 4.9 m (16.1 ft)
Draught: 4.62 m (15.2 ft)
Speed: 11.3 knots (20.8 km/h, 12.9 mph)
Complement: 27
Main gun: 76 mm (3 in)

HMS Uproar was a U-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness on 30 April 1940. She entered service on 2 April 1941, having been launched on 27 November 1940.

She was one of 53 ships of her class.

The boat displaced 540 long tons surfaced and 730 long tons submerged. She measured 58.2 m (191 ft) long with a beam of 4.9 m (16 ft). Her designed speed was 11.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 27. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.

She was in commission for 1,614 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap on 13 February 1946.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 shaft diesel-electric
2 Paxman Ricardo diesel generators + electric motors
615 / 825 hp
Armament: 4 bow internal 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes - 8 - 10 torpedoes
1 - 3 in gun

Sister ships

28 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Uproar on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 20470 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons