HMS Unbroken (P42) is a Royal Navy submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness, and that is part of the third group of that class and has become the only Royal Navy ship that has the name.
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Careers
After testing in Holy Loch, Unbroken came out to join the 10th Flotilla in Malta, with a work patrol from Gibraltar. He will spend most of his wartime career in the Mediterranean. He landed a saboteur under the command of Captain Peter Churchill at Antibes in southern France. He then proceeded to Malta to reform the 10th Flotilla in June 1942. He was the only submarine operating from Malta to United , Unruffled and Unrivaled joined. In July 1942, Unbroken attacked the main west coast rail line in mainland Italy, and successfully blocked the lane for 24 hours. However, he was attacked back and continued to be hit on the battery, forcing him to return to Malta. He took part in Operation Harpoon and Vigorous, in June 1942. He suffered severe damage in October 1942, by a counterattack after crashing into a tanker, and was once again repaired in Malta.
During his time in the Mediterranean he drowned Italian merchants Edda and Bologna (former French Monaco), Italian pilot ship F 20/ Enrica , and Italian auxiliary minesweeper no. 17/ Milano . He also damaged the Italian vessel Vale Formoso II , the German (formerly Norwegian) tanker Regina , and most significantly, the Italian heavy cruisers Bolzano and the Italian light vessel Muzio Attendolo during Operation Pedestal. Bolzano was struck in his oil tank and stranded on shore; Attendolo loses a sixty foot bow. Both did not act during the rest of the war.
Unbroken also attacked the Italian merchant Algerino , but missed him with his torpedo. He then damaged the Italian merchant Titania , northwest of Tripoli, Libya. Titania was brought by the Italian destroyer Ascari . Titania drowned early next day by HMSÃ, Safari . Unbroken returned to England in December 1943.
Unbroken was transferred on loan to the Soviet Union on June 26, 1944, where he changed his name to V-2 . Sailing under the Soviet flag he drowned the German submarine UJ-1220 on October 12, 1944. He spent four years in Soviet service before being returned to the Royal Navy in 1949. He was fired at Gateshead from 9 May 1950.
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References
Bibliography
- "HMS Not Disconnected (P 42)". uboat.net .
- "Ultimatum to Unbroken". British submarine from World War II . Archived from the original on July 11, 2007.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Royal Navy Ship: Complete Note of all Royal Navy Combat Ships (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLCÃ, 67375475.
- Submarines, War Under the Wave, From 1776 To Today, by Robert Hutchinson
External links
- Captain Sir Edward Archdale, Bt - Daily Obituary Telegraph
- Not Separated: The Story of Submarine by Alastair Mars, an autobiographical account by his commander.
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