HMS Ultimatum (P34)

HMS Ultimatum (P34)

HMS "Ultimatum" (P34) 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 "Ultimatum".

Career

"Ultimatum" spent her wartime career in the Mediterranean, where she sank the Italian passenger ship "Dalmatia L.", a German sailing vessel and the Italian submarine "Ammiraglio Millo". On 30 October, 1943, "Ultimatum" attacked a German U-boat southeast of Toulon, France. This attack was against "U-73" but it inflicted no damage. "Ultimatum" had been credited with sinking "U-431" in this attack. However "U-431" was sunk with all hands on 21 October 1943 in the Mediterranean off Algiers by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft. "U-431's" fate was revised in November 1987 by the Foreign Documents Section of the British Ministry of Defence.

"Ultimatum" also unsuccessfully attacked the Italian merchants "Ravello", "Luciano Manara" and "Unione", the Italian submarine "Zaffiro" and the German auxiliary patrol vessel Uj 6073 / "Nimeth Allah". She had more luck on 2 May, 1944, when she shelled the harbour of Kalamata, Greece, sinking two sailing vessels, destroying five on the slips and damaging another. She also went on to attack a group of small German vessels, successfully hitting and sinking the German barge "F 811".

"Ultimatum" survived the war and was sold to be broken up for scrap on 23 December 1949, and was scrapped at Port Glasgow in February 1950.

References

*cite web | url= http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3544.html | title= HMS "Ultimatum" (P 34) | 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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