HMS Untiring
{{short description|Submarine of the Royal Navy}}
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{{Use British English|date=April 2017}}
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HMS Untiring (P59) was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Untiring. After the war, she was loaned to the Greek Navy and renamed Xifias (Y-10).
Wartime career
After a work up patrol off the Norwegian coast, where she sank the Norwegian fishing vessel Havbris I{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Wrecksite.EU|url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?240022|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}} whilst she was fishing for halibut, Untiring was assigned to operate in the Mediterranean. Here, she went on to sink the German netlayer Netztender 44/Prudente, the German barge F 296, the German ships Jean Suzon/FP 352 and St. Antoine/FP 358, the German auxiliary minesweeper M 6022/Enseigne, the German merchants Diana and Siena (the former French Astrée), the German auxiliary submarine chasers UJ 6075 / Clairvoyant and UJ 6078/La Havraise, and also claimed to have sunk a sailing vessel with gunfire.
She also unsuccessfully attacked the German submarine U-616, the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 6073/Nimeth Allah, the German torpedo boat TA18 (the former Italian Solferino), the German merchant Burgas and an unidentified German auxiliary patrol vessel.
Greek service
{{other ships|Greek submarine Xifias}}
Untiring survived the war and was loaned to the Greek Navy in July 1945, where she was renamed Xifias. She served with the Greek Navy for seven years, and was returned to the Royal Navy in 1952. She was subsequently sunk as an ASDIC target on 25 July 1957.{{cite web |title=HMS Untiring |url=https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3564.html |website=uboat.net |access-date=26 September 2022}}
Citations
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References
- {{cite book |last1=McCartney |first1=Innes |title=Lost patrols : submarine wrecks of the English Channel |date=2002 |publisher=Periscope |location=Penzance |isbn=978-1-90438-104-4}}
- {{cite web | url= http://home.cogeco.ca/~gchalcraft/sm/page29.html | title= Untiring to Urge | work= British submarines of World War II | url-status= dead | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070711194518/http://home.cogeco.ca/~gchalcraft/sm/page29.html | archivedate= 11 July 2007 | df= dmy-all }}
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite book | last = Hutchinson | first = Robert | title = Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day | url = https://archive.org/details/janessubmarinesw0000hutc | url-access = registration | year = 2001 | location = London | publisher = HarperCollins | isbn = 978-0-00-710558-8 | oclc = 53783010 }}
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Category:British U-class submarines
Category:Ships built on the River Tyne
Category:World War II submarines of the United Kingdom