Royal Navy — Submarine
P58
HMS Untamed
Service
- as HMS Untamed14 April 1943 — 13 February 1946872 days of the war
U-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Untamed
- Pennant / hull number
- P58
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker
- Laid down
- 9 October 1941
- Launched
- 8 December 1942
- Commissioned
- 14 April 1943
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping on 13 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
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 11.3 knots (20.8 km/h, 12.9 mph)
- Complement
- 27
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Untamed was a U-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P58. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker on 9 October 1941. She entered service on 14 April 1943, having been launched on 8 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 one 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 872 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 13 February 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shaft diesel-electric
- 2 Paxman Ricardo diesel generators + electric motors
- 615 / 825 hp
- Armament
- 4 x bow internal 21 inch (533 mm)torpedo tubes - 8 - 10 torpedoes
- 1 x 3 in gun
Sister ships
- French submarine Curie (P67)
- HMS P32 (1940)
- HMS P33 (1941)
- HMS P36 (1941)
- HMS P38 (1941)
- HMS P39
- HMS P47
- HMS P48 (1942)
- HMS Ultimatum
- HMS Ultor
- HMS Umbra
- HMS Umpire (N82)
- HMS Una
- HMS Unbeaten
- HMS Unbending
- HMS Unbroken
- HMS Undaunted (N55)
- HMS Undine (N48)
- HMS Union (N56)
- HMS Unique (N95)
- HMS Unison
- HMS United
- HMS Unity (N66)
- HMS Universal
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Untamed on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22809 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons