HMS ''Unsparing'' (P55) was a

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

U-class

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built by

Vickers-Armstrong Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927. The majority of the company was nationalised in the 1960s and 1970s, w ...

. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name ''Unsparing''.

Career

''Unsparing'' spent most of her wartime career in the

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, where she sank the Italian tanker ''Flegetonte'', the German merchant ''Ingeborg'' (the former French ''Ste. Martine''), the German submarine chaser ''UJ 2106'' (the former Greek minelayer ''Tenedos''), the German barge ''Sybille'' (the former French ''Caisson'') and the German ferry ''SF 284'', as well as six sailing vessels, including the Greek ''Evangelistria''. She also torpedoed and damaged the German merchant ''Peter'', as well as a number of sailing vessels. ''Unsparing'' survived the war and was scrapped at Thos. W. Ward Inverkeithing in 1946.

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IWM Interview with Aston Piper, who commanded HMS ''Unsparing'' from 1943 to 1944
{{DEFAULTSORT:Unsparing (P55) British U-class submarines Ships built on the River Tyne 1942 ships World War II submarines of the United Kingdom Ships built by Vickers Armstrong