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Unrivalled (P 45)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: U2
Fate: Scrapped in January 1946 at Troon.

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Commanders
1942: Lieutenant   Andrew George Prideaux
1942: Lieutenant   Hugh Bentley Turner
1944: Lieutenant   David Sivewright Brown (RNVR)
1945: Lieutenant   Reginald Patrick Fitzgerald DSC MID
1945: Acting Lieutenant   David Pels (RNVR)

Roll of Honour

3
Sim, Jack
C/SSX 32496
Died: 25th Dec, 1942.
Aged: 20
From: Ilford, Essex
Able Seaman
He was hit by small arms fire during a surface gun action with an Italian convoy off Mahdia, Tunisia on Christmas Day 1942 and died shortly after.

The son of George and Ella Sim.
Crossley, Alfred Harvey (SANF)
Died: 8th Mar, 1943.
Aged: 23
From: Durban, Natal South Africa
Sub Lieutenant
He was a member of Combined Operations Pilotage Parties. On 7 March 1943 he was launched in a Folbot together with Lieutenant Victor De Kock, to carry out reconnaissance of beaches in Sicily ahead of Operation Husky. Nothing was seen of them again, despite a search for them the following night; they disappeared without trace and are assumed to have drowned.
De Kock, Victor Peter de Chattillon (RNVR) MBE DSC MiD
Died: 8th Mar, 1943.
Aged: 23
From: Onrust River, Cape Province South Africa
Lieutenant
He was a member of Combined Operations Pilotage Parties. On 7 March 1943 he was launched in a Folbot together with Sub Lieutenant Alfred Crossley, to carry out reconnaissance of beaches in Sicily ahead of Operation Husky. Nothing was seen of them again, despite a search for them the following night; they disappeared without trace and are assumed to have drowned.

Events

 12-05-1941   Laid Down
 16-02-1942   While operating south of Punta Stilo HMS Unrivalled torpedoes and sinks the Italian sailing vessel Sparviero and the Italian merchant Pasubio.
 16-02-1942   Launched
 29-03-1942   HMS Unrivalled torpedoes and sinks the German auxiliary submarine chasers UJ 2201/Bois Rose and UJ 2204/Boral off the Gulf of Picarenzi, Italy.
 03-05-1942   Completed
 03-12-1942   HMS Unrivalled torpedoes damages the Italian torpedo boat Antonio Mosto and the Italian sailing vessel Cesira Curreri with gunfire in the Gulf of Tunis.
 26-12-1942   HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian auxiliary submarine chaser O 97/Margherita with gunfire about 5 nautical miles north of Mehedia, Tunisia.
 31-12-1942   HMS Unrivalled torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Maddalena south-east of Mehedia, Tunisia.
 16-01-1943   HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian tug Genova with gunfire near Sousa, Tunisia.
 20-01-1943   While on patrol of Tunisia HMS Unrivalled intercepts a small Italian naval auxiliary towing a schooner. She sinks the naval auxiliary with gunfire.
 21-01-1943   HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian sailing vessels Margherita and Ardito with gunfire and scuttling charges about 5 nautical miles north-east of Kuriat, Tunisia.
 01-03-1943   HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian sailing vessel Triglav 4 nautical miles south-east of Cape San Vito.
 19-04-1943   HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian merchantmen Mostaganem & Bivona off Sicily
 06-05-1943   HMS Unrivalled attacks the Italian sailing vessel Albina with a torpedo off Cape Vaticano, Calabria, Italy. The torpedo misses.
 07-05-1943   HMS Unrivalled sinks Italian sailing vessel Albina
 09-05-1943   HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian Santa Mariana Salina
 24-07-1943   HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian auxiliary minesweeper R 172/Impero with gunfire off Amantea, Italy.
 25-07-1943   HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian tug Iseo with gunfire 1 mile south of Cape Vaticano.

Official
U2 Specification
Length overall  195 ft 6 inch
Beam  15 ft 9 inch
Depth  15 ft 10 inch
Displacement   648 tons (surface)
  735 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  4 x 21 inch bow tubes (8 torpedoes carried)
  1 x 3 inch gun
  3 x 0.303 inch machine-guns
Complement  4 Officers, 29 Others.
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