HMS ''Upright'' was a

British U-class submarine The British U-class submarines (officially "''War Emergency 1940 and 1941 programmes, short hull''") were a class of 49 small submarines built just before and during the Second World War. The class is sometimes known as the ''Undine'' class, a ...

, of the second group of that class, 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 ...

Barrow-in-Furness Barrow-in-Furness is a port town in Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1867 and merged with Dalton-in-Furness Urban District in 1974 to form the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness. In 202 ...

. She was laid down on 6 November 1939 and was commissioned on 3 September 1940. So far she has been the only ship of the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were foug ...

to bear the name ''Upright''.

Career

''Upright'' spent most of her career operating in the

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, where she sank the Italian submarine chaser , Italian merchants ''Silvia Tripcovich'', ''Fabio Filzi'' and ''Carlo del Greco'', the Italian light cruiser ''Armando Diaz'' and an Italian drydock under tow. She also damaged the transport ''Galilea''. She launched an unsuccessful attack on an Italian floating drydock, and a convoy, missing her target, the Italian merchant ''Calino''. ''Upright'' was heavily depth charged by the escorts, following the attack.HMS Upright
uboat.net Nevertheless, ''Upright'' survived the war, and was sold to be broken up for scrap on 19 December 1945. She was scrapped at Troon in March 1946.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Upright (N89) British U-class submarines Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness 1940 ships World War II submarines of the United Kingdom