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ROYAL NORWEGIAN NAVY (NORWAY)

SUBMARINES

UREDD submarines

P41 1941

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
P41, 1/1943- Uredd P41 Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK 1940 24/8/1941 12/1941 sunk 10/2/1943
Ula (ex-Varne) P81, 1950- S300 Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK 11/1942 22/1/1943 4/1943 stricken 7/1964

 

 

 

Displacement standard, t

540

Displacement normal, t

630 / 732

Length, m

60.0

Breadth, m

4.90

Draught, m

4.52 - 4.65

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Paxman-Ricardo or Paxman diesel-generators/ 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

615 / 825

Max speed, kn

11.25 / 10

Fuel, t

diesel oil 38, later 55

Armament

P41: 4 - 533 TT (bow, 8), 1 x 1 - 76/40 QF Mk I HA

Ula: 4 - 533 TT (bow, 8 torpedoes or 6 M2 mines), 1 ?1 - 76/45 QF Mk I HA

Sensors

P41: type 286PW radar, sonars

Ula: type 291W radar, sonars

Complement

33

Diving depth operational, m 60

Ship project history: British submarines of U class, are transferred to Norway before completing.

    These submarines were originally reflected as unarmed targets for training of crews of escort ships. Already after design approval it was decided to arm them with TT. Construction of a fore end was changed for placing 4 TT in pressure hull and two more out of it, in a special fin. Single-hulled. Feature of this class that there on shafts only electric motors were and diesels used only in a role of generators. There were first British pure diesel-electric submarines.

Modernizations: 1955-1956, Ula: external streamlining, shorkel and new radar were installed.

Naval service: Uredd was lost being mined at Bodö (coast of Norway) 10/2/1943.

RN sister-ship Varangian 1946

 

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? Ivan Gogin, 2010