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Undaunted (N 55)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: U1
Fate: She was lost during her first patrol off Tripoli, being the second U class boat to be lost.

Possibly sunk off Zuara, Libya by Italian TB Pegaso on 12th May 1941.
Undaunted
Undaunted

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Commanders
1940: Lieutenant   J F Livesay

Ex P34

940-1941: 9th Flotilla - Dundee
1941: 1st Flotilla - Portsmouth
1941: 10th Flotilla - Malta

Sailed for trials and work up at Holy Loch arriving 30th December 1940. On completion of work up she joined 9th Flotilla at Dundee.

She joined the First Flotilla at Portsmouth in March 1941.

Sailed Portsmouth to join Iron Ring boats on 3rd April 1941 and then onto Malta to join the 10th Flotilla.

Replaced Unique, Usk and Upholder in Home waters when they were dispatched to the Med, April 1941.

Joined other submarines forming the iron ring around Brest in the hope of intercepting the battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhost.

All of these boats were recalled on 10th April 1941.

Roll of Honour
32
 
Anthony, James Wilson 
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Sub Lieutenant Aged: 24
Armstrong, George Alfred  D/JX 143870
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Leading Telegraphist Aged: 22
Bate, Jack Coode  (RNR)
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Sub Lieutenant Aged: 21
Beatty, James Torney  P/JX 137493
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Able Seaman Aged: 25
Blandford, Ernest James Moorson  P/JX 134084
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Petty Officer Aged: 26
Brady, James Joseph  P/KX 82853
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Stoker Petty Officer Aged: 26
Bushell, Douglas  C/JX 201597
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Ordinary Seaman Aged: 23
Chapman, Frank Ronald  D/JX 151000
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Leading Telegraphist Aged: 26
D'Almaine, Harry Robert 
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Lieutenant Aged: 25
Furmenger, Victor Albert  C/SSX 20458
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Able Seaman Aged: 21
Harms, Alfred John  D/MX 45622
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Chief Engine Room Artificer Aged: 30
Hartshorn, George Arthur  C/JX 163772
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Ordinary Telegraphist Aged: 18
Hastie, James  D/K 55416
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 40
Heal, Herbert Victor  P/K 58480
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 33
CWGC has Heal, Hubert Victor.
Hillcoat, Thomas Muir  D/KX 98362
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 19
Isaac, Donald Jack  P/M 37663
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Engine Room Artificer 1st Class Aged: 33
King, Charles William  DSM D/J 66612
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Petty Officer Telegraphist Aged: 40
Lewer, James Markwick  P/MX 50604
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Aged: 32
Livesey, James Lees 
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Lieutenant Aged: 29
Born Lees, James C. Served as Livesey, James Lees
Lockwood, William Francis  C/SSX 26885
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Able Seaman Aged: 20
Micklefield, Fred  D/KX 83358
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Leading Stoker Aged: 25
Morrison, George Edward  P/JX 133548
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Able Seaman Aged: 35
First Service number SSX12531
Mudd, Thomas Edgar  P/K 61605
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Petty Officer Aged: 35
Newton, Albert Edward  D/K 63309 Born: 5th Jul, 1902. 
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 38
1929-1941 D/KX 98432 from Taunton, Somerset UK
Ralphson, Sidney  D/SSX 28845
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Telegraphist Aged: 23
from Prescot, Lancashire UK
Reeves, John George  C/JX 126593
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Petty Officer Aged: 30
Roberts, Norman  C/SSX 17313
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Leading Signalman Aged: 23
Robinson, Leonard Guy  C/J 115104
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Leading Seaman Aged: 31
Rogers, Robert William Merrow  P/JX 164845
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Leading Seaman Aged: 43
Sumpton, Ronald Richard  (RNR) C/X 20887
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Able Seaman Aged: 24
Worrall, Hewlett Taberner  P/JX 142444
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Able Seaman Aged: 22
Young, Donald George William  P/J 101589
Died: 12th May, 1941.
Able Seaman Aged: 36

Events

 02-12-1939   Laid Down
 20-08-1940   Launched
 30-12-1940   Completed
 12-05-1941   HMS Undaunted sailed for her Mediterranean patrol from Malta on 1st May 1941. Ordered to patrol off Tripoli the submarine failed to return on her due date of 11th May and attempts to contact her failed.

It is believed that she fell victim to the Italian torpedo boat Pegaso who had sailed from Tripoli on the 12th. At 2030 that evening Pegaso signalled that she had attacked a submarine with depth charges and that a large patch of oil had been observed, indication of the submarines destruction.

Against this theory is the fact that by that date Undaunted should have been back in harbour but it is possible that a decision to remain at sea for a day had been taken or that Undaunted may have suffered mechanical problems preventing her return.

There is always the every present possibility that the submarine fell foul to a mine.
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