HMS Upshot

{{short description|Submarine of the Royal Navy}}

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|Ship country=United Kingdom

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|Ship name=HMS Upshot

|Ship ordered=21 May 1942

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|Ship builder=Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness

|Ship laid down=30 May 1943

|Ship launched=24 March 1944

|Ship commissioned=15 May 1944

|Ship decommissioned=2 November 1949

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|Ship identification=Pennant number P82

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|Ship fate=Scrapped at Thos. W. Ward's shipbreakers, Preston

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|Ship class=V-class submarine

|Ship displacement=*545 tons standard/658 tons full load surfaced

  • 740 tons submerged

|Ship length={{convert|204|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship beam={{convert|16|ft|1|in|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship draught={{convert|15|ft|3|in|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship propulsion=2 shaft diesel-electric, 2 Paxman diesel generators + electric motors, {{convert|615|hp|lk=in|abbr=on}} / {{convert|825|hp|abbr=on}}

|Ship speed=*{{convert|11.25|kn|km/h|0}} surfaced

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|Ship complement=33 officers and men

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|Ship armament=*4 × forward 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

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HMS Upshot was a V-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was built during the Second World War as part of the second batch (18 in number) of V-class submarines ordered on 21 May 1942.

She was built by Vickers-Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness), being laid down on 3 May 1943, launched on 24 March 1944, and finally commissioned on 15 May 1944.

Fate

The submarine was decommissioned on 2 November 1949 and broken up for scrap in Preston.

References

  • {{Cite Colledge2006}}
  • [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3575.html HMS Upshot at Uboat.net]