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HMS Unison
Submarine of the Royal Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Unison (P43) was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, and part of the third group of that class. She is the only craft of the Royal Navy to have borne the name Unison. Prior to receiving the name, she carried the pennant number P43 and was unofficially known as Ulysses. She was renamed Unison in 1943.[1]
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Name | HMS Unison |
Builder | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
Laid down | 30 December 1940 |
Launched | 5 November 1941 |
Commissioned | 19 February 1942 |
Out of service | transferred to Soviet Navy 26 June 1944 |
Fate | Scrapped May 1950 |
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Name | V-3 |
Acquired | 26 June 1944 |
Fate | Returned to Royal Navy in 1949 |
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Class and type | U-class submarine |
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Length | 58.22 m (191 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 4.90 m (16 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 4.62 m (15 ft 2 in) |
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Complement | 27-31 |
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