HMS Untamed
{{short description|Submarine of the Royal Navy}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=HMS Vitality.jpg |Ship caption=HMS Vitality moving away from the quayside with some of the crew on deck }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{Shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship name=HMS Untamed |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker |Ship laid down= 9 October 1941 |Ship launched= 8 December 1942 |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= 14 April 1943 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship captured= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= | Ship identification = Pennant number: P58 |Ship fate=*Sunk on 30 May 1943
|Ship badge=File:UNTAMED badge-1-.jpg }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{Shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship class= |Ship name=HMS Vitality |Ship commissioned= July 1944 |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 scrapping on 13 February 1946 |Ship badge=File:VITALITY badge-1-.jpg }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship displacement=*Surfaced - 540 tons standard, 630 tons full load
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|Ship speed=*{{convert|11.25|kn}} max surfaced
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HMS Untamed was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker.[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=183-dsva&cid=0#0 National Archives] So far, she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Untamed. On 30 May 1943, she sank during a training exercise in the Firth of Clyde with the loss of all 35 of her crew.[http://www.cbeale.co.uk/Articles/untamed.html "HM Submarine Untamed (P58) – 1943"], by Catherine Beale[https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?16180 "HMS Untamed (P58) (+1943)]", "The Wreck Site" database Untamed was subsequently salvaged and renamed HMS Vitality, another unique name, and lasted until 1946 when she was scrapped.
Sinking
Untamed was on a training exercise with the 8th Escort Group in the Firth of Clyde on 30 May 1943 acting as a target.RN Submarine Museum
In the second exercise that day, Untamed was used as a target for anti-submarine mortar practice by the yacht HMS Shemara. When the submarine did not respond to attempts to contact her nor surface, assistance was summoned. Shemara located Untamed with sonar and heard the sounds of her engines being run and tanks being blown. {{HMS|Thrasher|N37|6}} arrived but no more was heard from Untamed after 17:45 – nearly three hours from the first indication of a problem. Weather prevented divers inspecting the submarine until 1 June. There was no outward sign of damage and it was not until after Untamed was salvaged on 5 July 1943 that it was found that she had been flooded through a sluice valve.
Untamed was salvaged, refitted and named Vitality, returning to service in July 1944. As Vitality, she had a short and uneventful career and was sold to be broken up for scrap on 13 February 1946. She was broken up at Troon.
The Sandbank War Memorial at Hunters Quay is in part dedicated to the crew of Untamed[http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-post-33339.html The Scottish War Memorials Project] who were buried in Dunoon Cemetery.{{Cite web |url=http://twgpp.org/results.php?sname=&fname=&cemetery=dunoon&country=74&force=4&nationality= |title=The War Graves Photographic Project |access-date=27 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728134431/http://twgpp.org/results.php?sname=&fname=&cemetery=dunoon&country=74&force=4&nationality= |archive-date=28 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}
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References
- {{Cite web | url= http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3563.html| title= HMS Untamed (P 58) | work= uboat.net}}
- {{Cite web | url= http://home.cogeco.ca/~gchalcraft/sm/page28.html | title= Universal to Untamed | work= British submarines of World War II | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070711191533/http://home.cogeco.ca/~gchalcraft/sm/page28.html | archive-date= 11 July 2007 | df= dmy-all }}
- {{Cite web | url= http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/general/losses.htm#untamed | title= Submarine losses 1904 to the present day | work= RN Submarine museum | access-date= 26 June 2010 | archive-date= 8 August 2007 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070808171910/http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/general/losses.htm#untamed | url-status= dead }}
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{Cite book | last = Hutchinson | first = Robert | title = Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day | year = 2001 | location = London | publisher = HarperCollins | isbn = 978-0-00-710558-8 | oclc = 53783010 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/janessubmarinesw0000hutc }}
External links
- [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=183-dsva&cid=0#0 The National Archives] original design plans of Untamed
{{British U class submarine}}
{{May 1943 shipwrecks}}
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Category:World War II submarines of the United Kingdom
Category:British submarine accidents
Shipwrecks in the Firth of Clyde
Category:1943 disasters in the United Kingdom
Category:Maritime incidents in May 1943