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Unsparing (P 55)

Built By: Vickers (Tyne)
Build Group: U2
Fate: Scrapped on 14th February 1946 at Inverkeithing.
Unsparing (P 55)
Unsparing (P 55)

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Commanders
1942: Lieutenant   Aston Dalzell Piper (RNR) DSC
1945: Lieutenant   Cecil Robert Peter Charles Branson
1945: Acting Lieutenant   John David Tweedie (RNVR)

Roll of Honour

1
Wilson, Harry
C/SSX 27724
Died: 31st Oct, 1943.
Able Seaman
The Submarine had been carrying out a Surface Gun Action against a troop carrying caique. When the caique returned fire, the Submarine broke off the action.

Whilst clearing the decks for diving a shell hit the base of the Conning Tower and Able Seaman Wilson was wounded and lost over the side.

The Gunnery Officer and Petty Officer were also wounded.

Events

 11-08-1941   Laid Down
 28-07-1942   Launched
 29-11-1942   Completed
 31-07-1943   HMS Unsparing torpedoes and sinks the Italian tanker Flegetonte off Bari, Italy.
 29-09-1943   HMS Unsparing sinks a Greek sailing vessel with gunfire off Kythira Island, Greece.
 29-10-1943   HMS Unsparing torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Ingeborg west of the Island of Stampalia, Greece.
 31-10-1943   HMS Unsparing damages a sailing vessel with gunfire south of Cape Koraxas, Amorgos Island, Greece.
 02-12-1943   HMS Unsparing sinks a Greek sailing vessel with gunfire south of Levitha island, Greece.
 15-01-1944   HMS Unsparing sinks two Greek sailing vessels with gunfire off Lemnos Island, Greece
 19-02-1944   HMS Unsparing torpedoes and damages the German merchant Peter in the Aegean north of Skiathos Island.
 22-02-1944   HMS Unsparing sinks the Greek sailing vessel Evangelistria with gunfire off Volos, Greece.
 21-06-1944   HMS Unsparing sinks the German submarine chaser UJ 2106, the German barge Sybille and the German ferry SF 284 south of Cape Maleas, Greece.
 14-02-1946   Scrapped at Inverkeithing.
Unofficial
Unofficial
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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