HMS Upstart

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Upstart
Builder	Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down	17 March 1942
Launched	24 November 1942
Commissioned	3 April 1943
Out of service	Loaned to Greek Navy from 1945
Fate	sunk as ASDIC target 29 July 1959
Badge
Greece
Name	Amphitriti
In service	1945
Out of service	Returned to Royal Navy in 1952
General characteristics
Displacement	Surfaced - 540 tons standard, 630 tons full load; Submerged - 730 tons;
Length	58.22 m (191 ft)
Beam	4.90 m (16 ft 1 in)
Draught	4.62 m (15 ft 2 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft diesel-electric; 2 Paxman Ricardo diesel generators + electric motors; 615 / 825 hp;
Speed	11.25 knots (20.8 km/h) max surfaced; 10 knots (19 km/h) max submerged;
Complement	27-31
Armament	4 bow internal 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes - 8 - 10 torpedoes; 1 - 3-inch (76 mm) gun;

HMS Upstart (P65) 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 Upstart. After the war, she was loaned to the Greek Navy and renamed Amphitriti.

Career

Wartime

Upstart spent most of her wartime career operating off the south coast of France, where she sank the French fishing vessels Grotte de Bethlehem and Torpille, the German auxiliary minelayer Niedersachsen (the former French Guyane) and the German merchant Tolentino (the former French Saumur). She also launched failed attacks against the French merchant Medjerda and the Italian merchant Pascoli.

Postwar

Upstart survived the war and was loaned to the Greek Navy in 1945, where she was renamed Amphitriti. 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 off the Isle of Wight on 29 July 1959.

References

Innes McCartney (2002). Lost Patrols: Submarine Wrecks of the English Channel.
"HMS Upstart (P 65)". uboat.net.
"Untiring to Urge". British submarines of World War II.
Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8. OCLC 53783010.