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Ultimatum (P 34)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: U2
Fate: Sold on 23rd December 1949 and subsequently scrapped at Port Glasgow.

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Commanders
1941: Lieutenant   Peter Robert Helfrich Harrison DSC
1942: Lieutenant   Roger Creswell Bucknall
1942: Lieutenant   Desmond Samuel Royce Martin
1943: Lieutenant   William Hedley Kett (RNR)
1944: Lieutenant   Charles Henry Hammer MID
1945: Lieutenant   Peter Dove Courtenay Bennett
1945: Lieutenant   Roger Creswell Bucknall
1945: Lieutenant   John Oldham Coote MID
1945: Lieutenant   Alan Flockhart Esson (RNR)

1942: 10th Flotilla. Malta.
1942: 10th Flotilla/1st Flotilla. Alexandria

Events

 19-06-1940   Laid Down
 29-07-1941   Completed
 25-01-1942   HMS Ultimatum torpedoes and sinks the Italian passenger ship Dalmatia L. south-west of Capo dell'Armi.
 11-02-1942   Launched
 23-02-1942   HMS Ultimatum fires 4 torpedoes against the Italian merchants Ravello and Unione about 80 nautical miles east of Tripoli, Libya. All torpedoes fired missed.
 14-03-1942   HMS Ultimatum torpedoes and sinks the Italian submarine Ammiraglio Millo in the Ionian Sea off Punta Stilo, Calabria, Italy.
 24-06-1942   HMS Ultimatum makes a torpedo attack on an Italian submarine south of Crete. All torpedoes fired however missed.
 07-09-1942   HMS Ultimatum fires four torpedoes against the Italian merchant Luciano Manara in the central Mediterranean about 45 nautical miles south-west of Schiza Island, Greece. All torpedoes fired missed.
 05-04-1944   HMS Ultimatum sinks a German sailing vessel with gunfire off Suda Bay, Crete, Greece.
 02-05-1944   HMS Ultimatum shells the harour of Kalamata, Greece. Two sailing vessels were sunk, five were destroyed on the slips and one was damaged.
 03-07-1944   HMS Ultimatum fires two torpedoes at the German auxilary patrol vessel Uj 6073/Nimeth Allah off Toulon, southern France. The torpedoes miss the target.
 27-07-1944   HMS Ultimatum fires four torpedoes against a group of small German vessels. The German barge F 811 is hit and sunk off the coast of southern France.
 23-12-1949   Sold and subsequently scrapped at Port Glasgow.
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