HMS Upright

U-class submarine

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Upright3 September 1940 — March 19461,825 days of the war

U-class submarine Particulars

Name: HMS Upright
Builder: Vickers Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down: 6 November 1939
Launched: 21 April 1940
Commissioned: 3 September 1940
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 Upright was a U-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Vickers Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness on 6 November 1939. Launched on 21 April 1940, she entered service on 3 September 1940.

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 1,825 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: 4 bow internal 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 2 external
10 torpedoes
1 - 3 in gun

Sister ships

28 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Upright on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: John Alfred Hampton — This photograph A 8429 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons