Unbending served in the Royal Navy's Tenth Flotilla under the command of Lieutenant E.T. Stanley.[2] The ship spent most of her wartime career in the Mediterranean, where she sank the Italian merchant shipsAlga, Citta di Bergamo, Cosenza and Beppe, the Italian auxiliary minelayer Eritrea and the Italian destroyer Giovanni da Verrazzano. She also sank the Italian ship Lupa II with gunfire. Unbending had first fired two torpedoes but these were evaded. Unbending also damaged the Italian passenger / cargo ship Viminale, the Italian merchant Carlo Margottini (the former Yugoslavian Bled), and the Italian passenger ship Carlo Margottini. This ship ran ashore and is not listed as a war loss so was most likely salvaged and returned to service.
Unbending was the initiator of one of the rare modern-day boarding parties: having surfaced beside a schooner in the gulf of Sfax, Unbending found herself unable to hit the small ship with her deck gun, so a resourceful officer leapt aboard and set fire to the entire ship using only a can of shale oil.[2]
Unbending was sold to be broken up for scrap on 23 December 1949 and scrapped at Gateshead in May 1950.
unbending, royal, navy, class, submarine, built, vickers, armstrong, barrow, furness, part, third, group, that, class, been, only, ship, royal, navy, bear, name, unbending, historyunited, kingdomnamebuildervickers, armstrong, barrow, furnesslaid, down30, augus. HMS Unbending P37 was a Royal Navy U class submarine built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow in Furness and part of the third group of that class 1 So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Unbending HistoryUnited KingdomNameHMS UnbendingBuilderVickers Armstrong Barrow in FurnessLaid down30 August 1940Launched12 May 1941Commissioned5 November 1941FateScrapped May 1950BadgeGeneral characteristicsClass and typeU class submarineDisplacementSurfaced 540 tons standard 630 tons full load Submerged 730 tonsLength58 22 m 191 ft Beam4 90 m 16 ft 1 in Draught4 62 m 15 ft 2 in Propulsion2 shaft diesel electric 2 Paxman Ricardo diesel generators electric motors 615 825 hpSpeed11 25 knots max surfaced 10 knots max submergedComplement27 31Armament4 bow internal 21 inch 533 mm torpedo tubes 8 10 torpedoes 1 3 inch 76 mm gunCareer EditUnbending served in the Royal Navy s Tenth Flotilla under the command of Lieutenant E T Stanley 2 The ship spent most of her wartime career in the Mediterranean where she sank the Italian merchant ships Alga Citta di Bergamo Cosenza and Beppe the Italian auxiliary minelayer Eritrea and the Italian destroyer Giovanni da Verrazzano She also sank the Italian ship Lupa II with gunfire Unbending had first fired two torpedoes but these were evaded Unbending also damaged the Italian passenger cargo ship Viminale the Italian merchant Carlo Margottini the former Yugoslavian Bled and the Italian passenger ship Carlo Margottini This ship ran ashore and is not listed as a war loss so was most likely salvaged and returned to service Unbending was the initiator of one of the rare modern day boarding parties having surfaced beside a schooner in the gulf of Sfax Unbending found herself unable to hit the small ship with her deck gun so a resourceful officer leapt aboard and set fire to the entire ship using only a can of shale oil 2 Unbending was sold to be broken up for scrap on 23 December 1949 and scrapped at Gateshead in May 1950 Notes Edit Colledge p 364 a b Compton Hall p 84 References Edit HMS Unbending P 37 uboat net Ultimatum to Unbroken British submarines of World War II Archived from the original on 11 July 2007 Colledge J J Warlow Ben 2006 1969 Ships of the Royal Navy The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy Rev ed London Chatham Publishing ISBN 978 1 86176 281 8 Compton Hall Richard 2004 Submarines at War 1939 45 UK Periscope Publishing Ltd ISBN 1 904381 22 7 Retrieved 1 January 2011 Hutchinson Robert 2001 Jane s Submarines War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day London HarperCollins ISBN 978 0 00 710558 8 OCLC 53783010 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title HMS Unbending amp oldid 1092469621, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
