HMS Umbra
{{short description|Submarine of the Royal Navy}}
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{{Use British English|date=March 2017}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= File:Hm Submarine Umbra Returns Home. 17 and 18 February 1943, Devonport. A14959.jpg |Ship caption= HMS Umbra }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship badge= |Ship name=HMS Umbra |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |Ship laid down= 19 July 1940 |Ship launched= 15 March 1941 |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= 2 September 1941 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship captured= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship fate=Sold for scrap on 9 July 1946, broken up at Blyth |Ship homeport= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship displacement=*Surfaced - 540 tons standard, 630 tons full load
|Ship length=58.22 m (191 feet) |Ship beam=4.90 m (16 ft 1 in) |Ship draught=4.62 m (15 ft 2 in) |Ship draft= |Ship propulsion=*2 shaft diesel-electric
|Ship speed=*11.25 knots max surfaced
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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 {{SS|Assunta De Gregori||2}}, Francesco Barbaro, Sacro Cuore, Emilio Morandi, the Italian transport ship Manfredo Campiero, and the German cargo ship {{SS|Süllberg|1912|2}}. She also sank the Italian salvage vessel Rampino, and picked up her sole survivor, and torpedoed and sank the damaged {{ship|Italian cruiser|Trento}} 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 {{ship|Italian battleship|Littorio}}, 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 {{GRT|15186}} 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
- {{cite web |url= http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3545.html |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |title=HMS Umbra (P 35) |work= uboat.net |access-date=2007-02-25}}
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite book |last=Hutchinson |first=Robert |year=2001 |title=Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day |url=https://archive.org/details/janessubmarinesw0000hutc |url-access=registration |place=London |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-00-710558-8 |oclc=53783010}}
- {{Commons category-inline|HMS Umbra (P35)}}
{{British U class submarine}}
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Category:British U-class submarines
Category:Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness
Category:World War II submarines of the United Kingdom
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