HMS Unbending (P37)

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. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name "Unbending".

Career

"Unbending" spent most of her wartime career in the Mediterranean, where she sank the Italian merchants "Alga", "Citta di Bergamo", "Cosenza" and "Beppe", the Italian auxiliary minelayer "Eritrea" and the Italian destroyer "Giovanni da Verazzano". 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 sold to be broken up for scrap on 23 December 1949 and scrapped at Gateshead in May 1950.

References

*cite web | url= http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3547.html | title= HMS "Unbending" (P 37) | 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
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*Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson