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Unruly (P 49)

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

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Unruly (P 49)
Unruly (P 49)

Events

19-11-1941 Laid Down
28-07-1942 Launched
03-11-1942 Completed
11-03-1943 HMS Unruly fires two torpedoes against a Spanish merchant off Port Vendres, southern France. Both torpedoes miss.
12-03-1943 HMS Unruly torpedoes and sinks the French merchant St Lucien off Port Vendres, southern France.
16-05-1943 HMS Unruly torpedoed & damaged the Italian merchant Nicolo Tommaseo
14-06-1943 HMS Unruly torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Valentino Coda 19 nautical miles off Cape Vaticano, Italy.
13-07-1943 Shortly before 2100, HMS Unruly torpedoes & sinks Italian submarine Acciaio off Cape Vaticano near Messina, Sicily
15-08-1943 HMS Unruly torpedoes and damages the Italian tanker Cesco off Brindisi, Italy.
08-10-1943 HMS Unruly torpedoes and sinks the German minelayer Bulgaria but misses the minelayer Drache south off Amorgos Island, Greece.
02-12-1943 HMS Unruly sinks a Greek sailing vessel with gunfire of Levitha island, Greece.
13-12-1943 HMS Unruly fires two torpedoes agaist the German auxiliary minelayer Drache off Samos, Greece. Both missed.
08-01-1944 HMS Unruly sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire off Cape Doro, Andros Island, Greece.
11-01-1944 HMS Unruly sinks four sailing vessels with gunfire off Andros Island and Tinos Island, Greece.
12-01-1944 HMS Unruly sinks a Greek sailing vessel with gunfire north of Syros Island, Greece.
15-01-1944 HMS Unruly sinks the Greek sailing vessel Aghios Giorgios with gunfire north of Syros Island, Greece.
16-04-1944 HMS Unruly fires four torpedoes against the German about 25 nautical miles north of Lemnos, Greece. All torpedoes missed.
19-04-1944 HMS Unruly sinks two sailing vessels with gunfire and scuttling charges in the Gulf of Izmir, Turkey
21-04-1944 HMS Unruly sinks a sailing vessel with scuttling charges north of Chios Island, Greece.
30-05-1944 HMS Unruly sinks a sailing vessel with scuttling charges off Suda Bay, Crete, Greece.
03-07-1944 HMS Unruly fires three torpedoes at the German merchants Erpel and Pelikan north-east of Mykonos. The torpedoes miss.
11-07-1944 HMS Unruly fires four torpedoes at the German merchant Pelikan south-west of Kos, Greece. The torpedoes miss.
Comments

Comment by: Caroline Wetton on January 18, 2025

My husband's uncle, Geoff Coe, served on the Unruly after his ship HMS Calcutta was torpedoed and sunk in the Med.

Comment by: Robert Findley on August 27, 2018

One of my cousins served on the HMS Unruly. CPO Hardy

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