HMS Unshaken

U-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Unshaken21 May 1942 — March 19461,200 days of the war

U-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Unshaken
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down: 12 June 1941
Launched: 17 February 1942
Commissioned: 21 May 1942
Fate: Scrapped March 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 Unshaken was a U-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness on 12 June 1941. Launched on 17 February 1942, she entered service on 21 May 1942.

53 ships of the class were built.

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 1,200 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap in March 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: Four bow internal 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes - 8 - 10 torpedoes
one - 3 in gun

Sister ships

28 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Unshaken on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: McNeill (Leading Aircraftsman) — This photograph FL 20460 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons