HMS Upstart

History
United Kingdom
Class and type:	U-class submarine
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. OCLC 67375475. 
• 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. 

British U-class submarine
Royal Navy	First group Undine Unity Ursula Second group Umpire Una Unbeaten Undaunted Union Unique Upholder Upright Urchin Urge Usk Utmost Third group Ultimatum Ultor Umbra Unbending Unbroken Unison United Universal Unrivalled Unruffled Unruly Unseen Unshaken Unsparing Unswerving Untamed Untiring Uproar Upstart Usurper Uther Vandal Varangian Varne Vitality Vox P32 P33 P36 P38 P39 P41 P47 P48 P52
Other operators  Royal Danish Navy Springeren  Free French Naval Forces Curie  Royal Hellenic Navy Amphitriti Xifias  Royal Netherlands Navy Dolfijn  Royal Norwegian Navy Uredd Ula  Polish Navy Dzik Sokół  Soviet Navy V-2 V-3 V-4
Preceded by: T class Followed by: P611 class List of submarines of the Royal Navy List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1959
Shipwrecks	23 Jan: Natone 25 Jan: Yandra 30 Jan: Hans Hedtoft 19 Feb: Marios II 3 Mar: USS Cassia County 13 Mar: USS Lyon County 13 Apr: Alkaira 26 May: Monrovia 9 Jun: Margaret Rose 29 Jul: River Witham, HMS Upstart 24 Nov: Holmglen 8 Dec: RNLB Mona 9 Dec: Elfrida Unknown date: USS Esmeraldo County, Kwinana
Other incidents	26 Mar: Santa Rosa 13 Apr: Holdernith 15 Apr: Spurn Lightship 13 Dec: Tyne Breeze
1958 1960