HMS Ultor (P53)

HMS Ultor (P53)

HMS "Ultor" (P53) was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, launched in 1942, and part of the third group of the class. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name "Ultor".

Career

During the Second World War "Ultor" operated in the Mediterranean, where she sank the French ship "Penerf", the Italian auxiliary minesweeper No.92/"Tullio", the Italian merchant "Valfiorita", the Italian torpedo boat "Lince", the German merchant "Aversa" (the former Greek "Kakoulima"), the German sailing vessel "Paule", the German guardvessel "FCi 01", the German patrol vessel "SG-11" (the former French "Alice Robert"), the German tug "Cebre", the German tankers "Felix 1" and "Tempo 3" (the former Greek "Pallas"), the German auxiliary patrol vessel "Vinotra III" and the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 2211/"Hardy". "Ultor" also sank nine sailing vessels in the Mediterranean.

"Ultor" also unsuccessfully attacked the German-controlled French merchant "Condé" and the former Danish, German merchant "Nicoline Maersk", the German auxiliary minelayer "Niedersachsen" and the German netlayer "NT 38". She also damaged a French fishing vessel and torpedoed and damaged the German (former French) tanker "Champagne". The damaged tanker was beached and later torpedoed again by HMS "Uproar"

By 19 October 1943, when the "Aversa" was sunk, "Ultor" had fired 68 torpedoes of which 32 were hits (47%), the highest proportion of hits made by any submarine Commander up to that time.

"Ultor" survived the war and returned to the HMS Dolphin shore-establishment, Gosport, and after a brief refit joined the 6th Flotilla at Blyth. When Blyth was closed the "Ultor" went around to Rothesay, with the depot ship HMS "Cyclops". She spent some time as an ASDIC training target, then was put into reserve at Londonderry. She was finally broken up at Briton Ferry, in January 1946.

References

*cite web | url= http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3558.html | title= HMS "Ultor" (P 53) | work= uboat.net
*cite web | url= http://home.cogeco.ca/~gchalcraft/sm/page26.html | title= Ultimatum to Unbroken | work= British submarines of World War II
*Colledge
*Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson


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