HMS Unswerving (P63)

HMS "Unswerving" (P63) was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name "Unswerving".

Career

"Unswerving" carried out work-ups at end of 1943, then joined the 1st Flotilla in the Mediterranean, where she carried out patrols in the Aegean Sea. She would eventually spend most of her wartime career in the Mediterranean, where she sank the German guardboats "GN 61" and "GN 62", the German tanker "Bertha" (the former French "Bacchus") and six sailing vessels, and claimed to have damaged a seventh. She was however unlucky on numerous occasions, unsuccessfully attacking the small German merchant "Toni" (the former Greek "Thalia"), the German auxiliary minelayer "Zeus", the German transport "Pelikan" and her escort, the German torpedo boat "TA 19", and the German merchant "Gertrud" on two separate occasions.

"Unswerving" survived the war and was scrapped at Newport from 10 July 1946.

References

*cite web | url= http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3567.html | title= HMS "Unswerving" (P 63) | 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
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*Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson