HMS Unruly

U-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Unruly3 November 1942 — February 19461,034 days of the war

U-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Unruly
Pennant / hull number: P49
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down: 19 November 1941
Launched: 28 July 1942
Commissioned: 3 November 1942
Fate: Scrapped 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 Unruly was a U-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P49. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness on 19 November 1941. She entered service on 3 November 1942, having been launched on 28 July 1942.

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 one 76 mm (3 in) guns.

She was in commission for 1,034 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap in 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 hp / 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 Unruly on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Claude Henry Parnall — This photograph A 16887 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons