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HMS Upshot (P82)

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Name
  
HMS Upshot

Laid down
  
30 May 1943

Identification
  
pennant number P82

Launched
  
24 March 1944

Draft
  
4.65 m

Ordered
  
21 May 1942

Commissioned
  
15 May 1944

Construction started
  
30 May 1943

Length
  
62 m

Builder
  
Vickers-Armstrongs

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Fate
  
Scrapped at Thos W Ward's shipbreakers, Preston on 2 November 1949

HMS Upshot was a V-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was built during the Second World War as part of the second batch (18 in number) of V-class submarines ordered on 21 May 1942.

She was built by Vickers-Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness), being laid down on 3 May 1943, launched on 24 March 1944, and finally commissioned on 15 May 1944.

Fate

The submarine was decommissioned on 2 November 1949 and broken up for scrap in Preston.

References

HMS Upshot (P82) Wikipedia


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