| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | U2 |
| Fate: | Used as a target and sunk on 29th July 1957. |
Served with the Hellenic Navy as Xifias from 1945-52
By Dr Peter Schofield
HMS Unique was orginally adopted by Pontefract but lost in October 1942; HMS Upstart was then adopted
Submarine Adoptions| 17-03-1942 | Laid Down |
| 24-10-1942 | Launched |
| 03-04-1943 | Completed |
| 14-09-1943 | HMS Upstart sinks the French fishing vessels Grotte de Bethlehem and Torpille in the Bay of Biscay. |
| 02-11-1943 | While on patrol off Toulon, southern France, HMS Upstart attacks the French merchant Medjerda. All torpedoes miss. |
| 15-02-1944 | HMS Upstart sinks German auxiliary minelayer Niedersachsen (former French Guyane) off the Italian Riviera |
| 21-05-1944 | HMS Upstart torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Tolentino half a mile east of Port Vendres, southern France. |
| 28-07-1944 | HMS Upstart fires four torpedoes against the Italian merchant Pascoli south-east of Cape Cepet, southern France. The torpedoes miss. |
| 29-07-1957 | Used as a target and sunk |
| 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. |
My father was in the Navy during the Second World War and when he was on his way back, I can remember standing with my mother at the gate, asking,
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| 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. |
My father was in the Navy during the Second World War and when he was on his way back, I can remember standing with my mother at the gate, asking,
Part of the military documentary series examining each aspect of the armed forces.
This volume looks at the history and role of the submarine in the modern navy. Starting out as experimental oddities in the American Civil War, the most advanced submarines in the present day hold a crew of several hundred, can remain at sea for a year at a time, and are capable of launching dozens of thermonuclear missles at any spot in the world.
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Comments
Comment by: Michael Griffiths on November 11th, 2019
P 65 Upstart was transferred to the Greek Navy as Y 11 Amfitriti. It was P 59 Untiring that transferred to the Greek Navy as Y 10 Xifias.
Sources based on Jane's Fighting Ships tend to get the two boats muddled up as JFS 1954-1955 (maybe others too) got it wrong. Hool & Nutter "Damned Un-English Machines, A History of Barrow-Built Submarines" and uboat.net quoting as reference British National Archives at Kew, London, ADM 173/20206 and ADM 173/20173 give the association as Upstart = Amfitriti and Untiring = Xifias which puts the transfer dates and Greek "Y" Pennant numbers in a consistent order.
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