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HMS Umbra

Submarine of the Royal Navy

Summary

Submarine of the Royal Navy

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	Hm Submarine Umbra Returns Home. 17 and 18 February 1943, Devonport. A14959.jpg
image_caption	HMS Umbra
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
country	United Kingdom
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name	HMS Umbra
builder	Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
laid_down	19 July 1940
launched	15 March 1941
commissioned	2 September 1941
fate	Sold for scrap on 9 July 1946, broken up at Blyth
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
class	U-class submarine
displacement	*Surfaced - 540 tons standard, 630 tons full load
length	58.22 m (191 feet)
beam	4.90 m (16 ft 1 in)
draught	4.62 m (15 ft 2 in)
propulsion	*2 shaft diesel-electric
speed	*11.25 knots max surfaced
complement	27-31
armament	*4 bow internal 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes - 8 - 10 torpedoes
*1 - [[QF 3 inch 20 cwt	{{convert	3	in	mm	adj	on}}]] gun

Submerged - 730 tons
2 Paxman Ricardo diesel generators + electric motors
615 / 825 hp
10 knots max submerged
1 - 3 in gun

HMS Umbra (P35) was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow-in-Furness. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Umbra.

Career

She spent most of the war in the Mediterranean, where she sank the Italian cargo ships , Francesco Barbaro, Sacro Cuore, Emilio Morandi, the Italian transport ship Manfredo Campiero, and the German cargo ship . She also sank the Italian salvage vessel Rampino, and picked up her sole survivor, and torpedoed and sank the damaged on 15 June 1942. Trento had already been damaged by a torpedo from a British Beaufort aircraft (No. 217 Squadron RAF based at Malta). She also attacked the , but her torpedoes missed their target.

Umbra also torpedoed and destroyed the grounded Italian supply ship Amsterdam on 23 October 1942, and sank the Italian tug Pronta that was trying to salvage the Amsterdam. The Amsterdam had been grounded after being hit by a torpedo in an air attack. Umbra also damaged the Italian troop ship Piemonte and the Italian cargo ship Napoli. The ship was beached and later destroyed by aircraft. She later attacked and damaged the German troop ship Macedonia north of Sousse, Tunisia. The damaged German ship was beached and abandoned. She also launched an attack on the Italian cargo ship Nino Bixio, but missed her.

One of her last actions was to attack the Italian sailing vessels Nuovo Domenico and Concetta Falco by gunfire in the Gulf of Hammamet on 11 January 1943. Nuovo Domenico was damaged in the attack.

She survived the war, was sold for scrap on 9 July 1946, and was broken up at Blyth.

References

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