HNoMS Uredd (P41)
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | P41 |
Ordered | 11 March 1940 |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness |
Laid down | 15 October 1940 |
Launched | 24 August 1941 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy |
Norway | |
Name | Uredd |
Commissioned | 12 December 1941 |
Fate | Sunk, 10 February 1943 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | U-class submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 58.22 m (191 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 4.62 m (15 ft 2 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Complement | 27-31 |
Armament |
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HMS P41 was a
Service history
Ordered on 11 March 1940, the submarine was laid down at the Vickers-Armstrongs shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness on 15 October 1940, and launched on 24 August 1941.
She was transferred to Norwegian command on 7 December 1941. She served mostly as a patrol craft off the coast of
In February 1943 she was assigned, under the command of
Contact with Uredd was lost and she was believed to have been sunk in a German minefield on 10 February. The Royal Norwegian Navy officially declared her lost on 20 February 1943, the Royal Navy on 28 February.[1]
In 1985,
As HNoMS Uredd was operating with the Royal Navy's 9th Submarine Flotilla based at Dundee in Scotland, her crew are all commemorated on Dundee International Submarine Memorial.[2]
References
- Notes
- ^ Kindell, Don (2007). "Royal Norwegian Navy casualties - World War II". patriotfiles.com. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
- ^ "Dundee International Submarine Memorial - Dundee, United Kingdom - Community Organization". Facebook.com. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- Bibliography
- "HNoMS Uredd (P 41)". uboat.net.
- "P32 to P222". British submarines of World War II. Archived from the original on 11 July 2007. Retrieved 15 July 2007.
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Hutchinson, Robert, Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day