HMS Unrivalled

U-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Unrivalled3 May 1942 — 22 January 19461,218 days of the war

U-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Unrivalled
Builder: Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Ordered: 23 August 1940
Laid down: 12 May 1941
Launched: 16 February 1942
Commissioned: 3 May 1942
Fate: Scrapped 22 January 1946 (1946)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 648 long tons (658 t)
Displacement, submerged: 735 long tons (747 t)
Length: 59.44 m (195 ft)
Beam: 4.57 m (15 ft)
Draught: 4.57 m (15 ft)
Speed: 11.3 knots (20.8 km/h, 12.9 mph)
Complement: 33
Main gun: 76 mm (3 in)

HMS Unrivalled was a U-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness on 12 May 1941. Launched on 16 February 1942, she entered service on 3 May 1942.

Her class ran to 53 ships.

The boat displaced 648 long tons surfaced and 735 long tons submerged. She measured 59.4 m (195 ft) long with a beam of 4.6 m (15 ft). Her designed speed was 11.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 33.

Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns.

She was in commission for 1,218 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 shafts, 2 Davey-Paxman Diesel engines, 615 bhp total
2 electric motors, 825 bhp total
Armament: 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) bow torpedo tubes
1 × 3 in QF Mk I gun
3 × 0.303 in machine guns

Sister ships

28 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Unrivalled on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Roper, F G (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 14379 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons