HMS Unruffled (P46)

HMS Unruffled (P46)

HMS "Unruffled" (P46) was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name "Unruffled".

Career

"Unruffled" spent most of her eventful wartime career in the Mediterranean, where she sank the Vichy-French merchant "Liberia" (the former Greek "Cape Corso"), the Italian auxiliary minesweeper N 10 / "Aquila", the Italian merchants "Leonardo Palomba", "Una", "Sant'Antioco", "Citta di Catania", and "Città di Spezia", the Italian tankers "Castelverde" and "Teodolinda", the Italian sailing vessel "Amabile Carolina", the Italian naval auxiliary Z 90 / "Redentore", the German merchants "Lisboa", "Pommern" and "Baalbeck" and the French tanker "Henri Desprez". "Unruffled" also torpedoed and sank the Italian merchant "Loreto". She was carrying prisoners of war, 130 of whom were lost.

She also launched failed attacks on the Italian submarine "Antonio Sciesa" and the small German minesweeper "R 212", but her most important target was the Italian light cruiser "Attilio Regolo", which was torpedoed by "Unruffled" on 7 November, 1942. 60 feet of bow were blown off, but "Unruffled" could not sink the cruiser, having by now run out of torpedoes. The damaged cruiser was towed to port by the tug "Polifemo", escorted by the torpedo boats "Cigno", "Lince" and "Abba". Another attack by HMS "United" failed, but the "Attilio Regolo" was out of action for the rest of the war.

In addition to these actions, "Unruffled" took part in operations Harpoon and Vigorous.

"Unruffled" survived the war and was scrapped at Troon in January 1946.

References

*cite web | url= http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3554.html | title= HMS "Unruffled" (P 46) | work= uboat.net
*cite web | url= http://home.cogeco.ca/~gchalcraft/sm/page28.html | title= Universal to Untamed | 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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