HMS URSULA N59
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Description
Class……………………………U-class (First Group) Submarine Builder………………………...Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness Yard number……………….730 Laid down...………………….19 Feb 1937 Launched….…………………16 Feb 1938 Completed.………………….20 Dec 1938 Propulsion.…………………...2 shafts diesel/electric: Paxman-Ricardo 6-cylinder diesel generators + General Electric electric motors. Speed.…………………………11.25 knots (surfaced) / 10knots (submerged) Range…………………………...3800 nm at 10 knots (surfaced) . 170 / 23 nm at 2.5 /8 knots (submerged) Brief History The first group of 3 Submarines of the U-class UNDINE, UNITY and URSULA were originally conceived as unarmed boats for A/S training to replace the elderly "H" class, but at an early stage of their design it was decided to arm them so that they could additionally be used for submarine training and undertake short war patrols. Consequently the three units were all completed pre-war with six tubes were fitted forward-four internally and two externally together with four reload torpedoes, while the URSULA also shipped a 12PDR gun as well. URSULA was transferred to the Soviet Union on 26 June 1944, in lieu of Italian vessels claimed by the Russians after the surrender of the Italian Fleet. She was renamed V-4 by the Soviets. On 20 October 1944 she sank the German submarine chaser UJ-1219. She survived the war and was returned to Britain in early 1950, and scrapped at Grangemouth in May 1950. -
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