HMS Unbroken
Ratings on shore watch HMS Unbroken as she enters Portsmouth harbour after eighteen months duty in the Mediterranean | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Unbroken |
| Builder | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down | 30 December 1940 |
| Launched | 4 November 1941 |
| Christened | 1 February 1943 |
| Commissioned | 29 January 1942 |
| Out of service | transferred to Soviet Navy 26 June 1944 |
| Identification | P42 |
| Fate | Scrapped May 1950 |
| Badge | |
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | V-2 (В-2) |
| Acquired | 26 June 1944 |
| Fate | Returned to Royal Navy in 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | U-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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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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HMS Unbroken (P42) was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness; it was part of the third group of that class and has been the only vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She entered service as P42 and was renamed Unbroken on 1 February 1943.