HMS Upstart (P65)

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

*cite web | url= http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3569.html | title= HMS "Upstart" (P 65) | work= uboat.net
*cite web | url= http://home.cogeco.ca/~gchalcraft/sm/page29.html | title= Untiring to Urge | work= British submarines of World War II
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*Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson