Undine Crest

Small Patrol Submarine

 

Type:
Unity Class
Prototype

Pennant No.:
48.C
1939 - 48.N

Laid Down:
19th February 1937.
Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness.

Commissioned:
21st August 1938.
Lt. E.R.J. Oddie.

Commander:
July 1937 - July 1939
Lt.Cdr. E.R.J. Oddie.
July 1939 - Jan. 1940
Cdr. A.S. Jackson.

Complement:
27 (Peacetime)
31 (In War).
4 Officers, 23 Others,
4 Officers, 27 Others.

Service Career:
1938 - 1939
5th Flotilla, HMS Dolphin, Gosport.
Sept. 1939 - 1940
6th Flotilla, HMS Titania, Blyth.

Fate:
Completed three War Patrols, she was lost on her fourth patrol.

First Patrol - 31st August 1939
When war broke out between Britain and Germany she was on patrol in the Heligoland and this became her 1st war patrol.
13th September - Ended first patrol at Blyth.

Second Patrol - 22nd October 1939
Departed Rosyth to patrol off the West coast of Denmark and in the Heligoland Bight.
7th November - Ended Second patrol at Rosyth.

Third Patrol - 23rd November 1939
Departed Blyth to patrol off the South-West coast of Norway.
10th December - Ended Third patrol at Blyth.

Fourth Patrol - 31 Dec 1939
Departed Blyth to patrol in the Heligoland Bight.
7th January 1940.
Fired torpedoes at German minesweepers, which missed.  The minesweepers (M1201, M1204 and M1207) counter attacked and she was forced to the surface and scuttled.  The crew were picked up by the Germans.

Attacked and depth-charged by German minesweeping trawlers, scuttled 6th January 1940, Heligoland Bight.
The crew were rescued and survived more than five years as prisoners.