HMS Untiring
Service
- as HMS Untiring9 June 1943 — July 1945780 days of the war
- as XifiasJuly 1945 — 195263 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Untiring
- Pennant / hull number
- P59
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Laid down
- 23 December 1941
- Launched
- 20 January 1943
- Commissioned
- 9 June 1943
- Fate
- Returned to Royal Navy in 1952 (1952)
- Status
- Unknown
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 Untiring was a U-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number P59. Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne laid her keel on 23 December 1941. She entered service on 9 June 1943, having been launched on 20 January 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 served with the Royal Navy as HMS Untiring until July 1945. She then passed to the Hellenic Navy, serving as Xifias from July 1945. She was in commission for 843 days of the Second World War.
She was transferred in 1952.
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 bow internal 21 inch (533 mm)torpedo tubes - 8 - 10 torpedoes
- 1 - 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 Untiring on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22144 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons