HMS Unswerving

U-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Unswerving3 October 1943 — July 1949700 days of the war

U-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Unswerving
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker
Laid down: 17 February 1942
Launched: 19 July 1943
Commissioned: 3 October 1943
Fate: Sold for scrap, July 1949 (1949)
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 Unswerving was a U-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker on 17 February 1942. Launched on 19 July 1943, she entered service on 3 October 1943.

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 700 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap in July 1949.

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 Unswerving on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 20467 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons