HMS Unison (P43)

HMS "Unison" (P43) 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 "Unison". Prior to receiving the name, she bore the pennant number "P43", and was unofficially known as "Ulysses"

Career

"Unison" spent most of her wartime career in the Mediterranean, where she sank the Italian merchant "Enrichetta", "Maria Foscarini" and "Terni", the Italian sailing vessels "Luigi Verni", "Carlo P." and "Angela", the German coaster "Jaedjoer" and the Italian tanker "Zeila". She also damaged the Italian tanker "Pozarica", and unsuccessfully attacked the Italian merchant "Chisone", an unidentified medium-sized tanker, and the Italian light cruisers "Raimondo Montecuccoli" and "Emanuelle Filiberto Duca d’Aosta".

She took part in operations Harpoon and Vigorous. She was later fired on in error by a US tanker, causing damage to her pressure hull, although she was able to return to dock under her own power. The attack killed the Officer of the Watch, and severely injured three other crew members, including her captain, Lt Anthony Daniell DSO DSC*.

She was transferred to the Soviet Navy on 26 June 1944, and renamed "V3". She spent five years in Soviet service, being returned in 1949 and scrapped at Stockton in May 1950.

References

*cite web | url= http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3551.html | title= HMS "Unison" (P 43) | work= uboat.net
*cite web | url= http://home.cogeco.ca/~gchalcraft/sm/page27.html | title= Undaunted to Unity | 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