HMS Ultor

U-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Ultor31 December 1942 — 22 January 1946979 days of the war

U-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Ultor
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down: 30 December 1941
Launched: 12 October 1942
Commissioned: 31 December 1942
Fate: Scrapped on 22 January 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 Ultor was a U-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness laid her keel on 30 December 1941. Launched on 12 October 1942, she entered service on 31 December 1942.

Her class ran to 53 ships.

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 979 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap on 22 January 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 Ultor on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Claude Henry Parnall — This photograph A 16888 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons