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Upright (N 89)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: U1
Fate: Scrapped in March 1946 at Troon.
Upright (N 89)
Upright (N 89)

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Commanders
1940: Lieutenant   Francis John Brooks
1940: Lieutenant Commander   John Henry Eaden DSC
1941: Lieutenant   Russell Stanhope Brookes DSC
1941: Lieutenant   Edward Dudley Norman DSO DSC
1941: Lieutenant   John Somerton Wraith DSC
1942: Lieutenant   David Swanston DSC
1942: Lieutenant Commander   Anthony Foster Collett DSC
1942: Lieutenant   John Walter David Coombe
1943: Lieutenant   Peter Robert Helfrich Harrison DSO DSC
1944: Lieutenant   Ronald Max Seaburne-May DSC

Ex P38

1940: 1st Flotilla - Gibraltar

Events

 06-11-1939   Laid Down
 21-03-1940   Launched
 03-09-1940   Completed
 05-02-1941   HMS Upright makes a torpedo attack on an Italian convoy off Kerkennah and missed the Italian merchant Calino.
 23-02-1941   HMS Upright torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Silvia Tripcovich about 60 nautical miles north-east of Sfax, Tunisia.
 25-02-1941   HMS Upright torpedoes and sinks the Italian light cruiser Armando Diaz east off Sfax, Tunisia.
 31-03-1941   HMS Upright torpedoes and damages the transport Galilea off Tripoli, Libya.
 24-07-1941   HMS Upright fires two torpedoes at the Italian floating drydock GO 22 off Cape dell'Armi. The torpedoes miss and Upright is heavily depth charged by the escorts.
 27-09-1941   HMS Upright torpedoed and sank the Italian torpedo boat Albatros 8 nautical miles north-west of Cape Rasocolmo near Milazzo, Sicily, Italy.
 13-12-1941   HMS Upright torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchants Fabio Filzi and Carlo del Greco about 15 nautical miles south of Cape San Vito.
 09-05-1942   HMS Upright sinks an Italian drydock under tow with gunfire near Cape dell' Armi.
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