Unruly spent most of her eventful wartime career in the Mediterranean, apart from a period on convoy escort duty off the North Cape. Whilst serving in the Mediterranean, she sank the French merchant St Lucien, the Italian merchant Valentino Coda, twelve sailing vessels, including the Greek Aghios Giorgios, and the German minelayer Bulgaria. Bulgaria was loaded with supplies for the island of Kos. Unruly missed the minelayer Drache the same day. She spotted Drache several days later, but again failed to sink her.
Unruly also damaged the Italian tanker Cesco, and the Italian merchant Nicolo Tommaseo. The damaged Nicolo Tommaseo was later sunk by Allied aircraft. Unruly also launched failed attacks on the German merchants Erpel and Pelikan, and an unidentified Spanish merchant.
One of her most significant actions however, was the sinking of the Italian submarine Acciaio during the Allied invasion of Sicily. She was attacked with four torpedoes, at least one of which hit the Italian submarine, which sank her with the loss of all 46 of her crew. The crew of Unruly did not actually see the results of the attack, and initially believed they had missed and their target had escaped.
unruly, royal, navy, class, submarine, built, vickers, armstrong, barrow, furness, been, only, ship, royal, navy, bear, name, unruly, coming, from, patrol, algiershistoryunited, kingdomnamebuildervickers, armstrong, barrow, furnesslaid, down19, november, 1941l. HMS Unruly was a Royal Navy U class submarine built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow in Furness So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Unruly HMS Unruly coming in from patrol at AlgiersHistoryUnited KingdomNameHMS UnrulyBuilderVickers Armstrong Barrow in FurnessLaid down19 November 1941Launched28 July 1942Commissioned3 November 1942IdentificationPennant number P49FateScrapped February 1946General characteristicsClass and typeU class submarineDisplacementSurfaced 540 tons standard 630 tons full load Submerged 730 tonsLength58 22 m 191 0 ft Beam4 9 m 16 ft Draught4 62 m 15 ft 2 in Propulsion2 shaft diesel electric 2 Paxman Ricardo diesel generators electric motors 615 hp 459 kW 825 hp 615 kW Speed11 25 knots 20 84 km h 12 95 mph max surfaced 10 knots 19 km h 12 mph max submergedComplement27 31Armament4 bow internal 21 inch 533 mm torpedo tubes 8 10 torpedoes 1 3 inch 76 mm gunCareer EditUnruly spent most of her eventful wartime career in the Mediterranean apart from a period on convoy escort duty off the North Cape Whilst serving in the Mediterranean she sank the French merchant St Lucien the Italian merchant Valentino Coda twelve sailing vessels including the Greek Aghios Giorgios and the German minelayer Bulgaria Bulgaria was loaded with supplies for the island of Kos Unruly missed the minelayer Drache the same day She spotted Drache several days later but again failed to sink her Unruly also damaged the Italian tanker Cesco and the Italian merchant Nicolo Tommaseo The damaged Nicolo Tommaseo was later sunk by Allied aircraft Unruly also launched failed attacks on the German merchants Erpel and Pelikan and an unidentified Spanish merchant One of her most significant actions however was the sinking of the Italian submarine Acciaio during the Allied invasion of Sicily She was attacked with four torpedoes at least one of which hit the Italian submarine which sank her with the loss of all 46 of her crew The crew of Unruly did not actually see the results of the attack and initially believed they had missed and their target had escaped Unruly survived the war and was scrapped in February 1946 by Thos W Ward in Inverkeithing 1 Citations Edit Unruly P49 rnsubs co uk Retrieved 1 August 2021 References Edit HMS Unruly P 49 uboat net Universal to Untamed British submarines of World War II Archived from the original on 11 July 2007 R Smg ACCIAIO Sinking of the Acciaio Archived from the original on 26 September 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 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 Unruly amp oldid 1169316943, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
