| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | U1 |
| Fate: | Depth charged by Italian TB Groppo off the west coast of Sicily on 24 November 1942. |
| 1940: | Lieutenant | John Henry Eaden | DSC |
| 1941: | Lieutenant Commander | Richard Douglas Cayley | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | John Dennis Martin | |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | John Walter David Coombe |
Ex P42
From the radio room we received a routine signal from the Admiralty to say that the RAF reconnaissance had reported that a Naval force was due to leave Taranto within the next 48 hours. We were instructed to take up station in the centre of the instep which formed the bay south of Taranto. The areas immediately to the south of Utmost would be covered by two more 10th Flotilla boats, HMS Upright, and the last by HMS Upholder.
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| Betts, Albert MID |
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| Brown, William Albert |
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| Clabby, John DSM* |
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| Cockburn, Thomas Bethune DSM |
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| Coombe, John Walter David |
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| Davison, Albert Sander Cock |
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| Dean, Percival Cyril |
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| Des Voeux, John Harold |
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| Born as Walker, John Harold. Served as Des Voeux, John Harold. | ||||||
| Gasgoigne, Austen Malcolm |
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| Gough, John |
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| Hodgkinson, Raymond Leslie |
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| Jones, Stacey Baker DSM |
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| Kettle, Cyril DSM |
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| Lee, Albert Edward Hutchings |
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| Lever, Robert Boothman |
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| McLachlan, John |
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| Meredith, Thomas |
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| Newton, Wilfred |
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| Page, Leslie Harold BEM |
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| Seal, Reginald Alfred |
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| Shanahan, James DSM |
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| Simons, Thomas William DSM* |
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| Taverner, Brian William (RNVR) |
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| West, Kenneth John |
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| West, Kenneth Raymond |
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| White, Alfred Charles |
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| Wilby, Kenneth Gordon |
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| Williams, Albert Victor |
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| Williams, Dan |
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| Wilson, Richard Douglas DSM |
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| Wood, John Claude Hudson (RNR) |
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| Woodcock, Frank Henry |
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| 02-11-1939 | Laid Down |
| 20-04-1940 | Launched |
| 17-08-1940 | Completed |
| 12-02-1941 | HMS Utmost torpedoes and damages the Italian merchant Manfredo Camperio off Tripoli, Libya. |
| 09-03-1941 | HMS Utmost torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Capo Vita about 30 nautical miles north-east of Sousse, Tunisia. |
| 28-03-1941 | HMS Utmost attacks a convoy of 5 German merchants and three Italian destroyers and torpedoes and sinks the German merchants Heraklea and torpedoed and damages the Ruhr 22 nautical miles south-east of Kuriat, Tunisia. |
| 30-05-1941 | HMS Utmost makes a torpedo attack on a convoy off Sirte. All torpedoes miss their targets. |
| 26-06-1941 | HMS Utmost torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Enrico Costa 4 nautical miles from Cape Todaro, Sicily, Italy. |
| 28-07-1941 | HMS Utmost torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Frederico C. in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea of the west coast of Calabria, Italy. |
| 01-11-1941 | HMS Utmost destroys the Italian merchant Marigola off Kuriat Island, Tunisia. |
| 02-11-1941 | ORP Sokol and HMS Utmost together sink the Italian merchant Balilla about 20 nautical miles north-west of Capo San Vito, Sicily, Italy. |
| 21-11-1941 | HMS Utmost torpedoed and damaged Italian cruiser Luigi di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi in the Mediterranean. |
| 12-12-1941 | HMS Utmost attacks the Italian merchant Fabio Filzi in the Gulf of Taranto but miss the target. |
| 10-08-1942 | HMS Utmost fires four torpedoes against the Italian merchant Siculo off Marettimo but miss the target. |
| 24-11-1942 | Depth charged by Italian TB Groppo off the west coast of Sicily. |
| Length overall | 190 ft 7 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 9 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft 9 inch |
| Displacement | 630 tons (surface) |
| 730 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 200 ft |
| Speed | 11.5 knots (surface) |
| 9 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 4050 miles at 10 knots (design) |
| Submerged: 23 miles at 8 knots or 170 miles at 2.5 knots (design) | |
| Armament | (i) 4 x 21 inch bow tubes (8 torpedoes carried) |
| (ii) 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| Complement | (peacetime) 4 Officers, 23 Others, |
| (at war) 4 Officers, 27 Others | |
| Note | (i) The first seven U Class submarines had two additional external bow tubes installed and carried 10 torpedoes |
| (ii) Undine and Unity, which were not fitted with the 3 inch gun, had 27-man complements. |
In October 1942, the Battle of the Atlantic was at Its height and we were losing. Despite being far superior to anything Barrow had put in the water up to that time, German U-boats were not always successful.
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| Length overall | 190 ft 7 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 9 inch |
| Depth | 15 ft 9 inch |
| Displacement | 630 tons (surface) |
| 730 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 200 ft |
| Speed | 11.5 knots (surface) |
| 9 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Endurance | Surface: 4050 miles at 10 knots (design) |
| Submerged: 23 miles at 8 knots or 170 miles at 2.5 knots (design) | |
| Armament | (i) 4 x 21 inch bow tubes (8 torpedoes carried) |
| (ii) 1 x 3 inch gun | |
| 3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns | |
| Complement | (peacetime) 4 Officers, 23 Others, |
| (at war) 4 Officers, 27 Others | |
| Note | (i) The first seven U Class submarines had two additional external bow tubes installed and carried 10 torpedoes |
| (ii) Undine and Unity, which were not fitted with the 3 inch gun, had 27-man complements. |
In October 1942, the Battle of the Atlantic was at Its height and we were losing. Despite being far superior to anything Barrow had put in the water up to that time, German U-boats were not always successful.
Part of the military documentary series examining each aspect of the armed forces.
This volume looks at the history and role of the submarine in the modern navy. Starting out as experimental oddities in the American Civil War, the most advanced submarines in the present day hold a crew of several hundred, can remain at sea for a year at a time, and are capable of launching dozens of thermonuclear missles at any spot in the world.
18 pages added or updated in the last Array month
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