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{{short description|Submarine of the Royal Navy}}

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|Ship name=HMS ''Umbra''
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|Ship builder=[[Vickers Armstrong]], [[Barrow-in-Furness]]
|Ship laid down= 19 July 1940
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|Ship fate=Sold for scrap on 9 July 1946, broken up at [[Blyth, Northumberland|Blyth]]
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|Ship class=[[British U class submarine|U-class]] [[submarine]]
|Ship displacement=*Surfaced - 540 tons standard, 630 tons full load
*Submerged - 730 tons
|Ship length=58.22 m (191 feet)
|Ship beam=4.90 m (16 ft 1 in)
|Ship draught=4.62 m (15 ft 2 in)
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'''HMS ''Umbra'' (P35)''' was a [[Royal Navy]] [[British U class submarine|U-class]] [[submarine]] built by [[Vickers-Armstrongs]] at [[Barrow-in-Furness]]. So far she has been the only ship of the [[Royal Navy]] to bear the name ''Umbra''.

==Career==
[[File:Hm Submarine Umbra Home From the Mediterranean - She 'torpedoed' An Enemy Plane. 17 and 18 February 1943, Devonport, HMS Umbra Has Returned Home After More Than 12 Months in Service in Mediterranean W A14970.jpg|thumb|left|HMS ''Umbra''{{'}}s crew displaying the [[Use of the Jolly Roger by submarines|Jolly Roger]]]]
She spent most of the war in the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], where she sank the Italian [[cargo ship]]s {{SS|Assunta De Gregori||2}}, ''Francesco Barbaro'', ''Sacro Cuore'', ''Emilio Morandi'', the Italian transport ship ''Manfredo Campiero'', and the German cargo ship {{SS|Süllberg|1912|2}}. She also sank the Italian salvage vessel ''Rampino'', and picked up her sole survivor, and torpedoed and sank the damaged {{ship|Italian cruiser|Trento}} on 15 June 1942. ''Trento'' had already been damaged by a torpedo from a British [[Bristol Beaufort|Beaufort]] aircraft ([[No. 217 Squadron RAF]] based at [[Crown Colony of Malta|Malta]]). She also attacked the {{ship|Italian battleship|Littorio}}, but her torpedoes missed their target.

''Umbra'' also torpedoed and destroyed the grounded Italian supply ship ''Amsterdam'' on 23 October 1942, and sank the Italian tug ''Pronta'' that was trying to salvage the ''Amsterdam''. The ''Amsterdam'' had been grounded after being hit by a torpedo in an air attack. ''Umbra'' also damaged the {{GRT|15186}} Italian [[Troopship|troop ship]] ''[[SS Minnedosa|Piemonte]]'' and the Italian cargo ship ''Napoli''. The ship was beached and later destroyed by aircraft. She later attacked and damaged the German troop ship ''Macedonia'' north of Sousse, [[Tunisia]]. The damaged German ship was beached and abandoned. She also launched an attack on the Italian cargo ship ''Nino Bixio'', but missed her.

One of her last actions was to attack the Italian sailing vessels ''Nuovo Domenico'' and ''Concetta Falco'' by gunfire in the [[Gulf of Hammamet]] on 11 January 1943. ''Nuovo Domenico'' was damaged in the attack.

She survived the war, was sold for scrap on 9 July 1946, and was broken up at Blyth.

==References==
* {{cite web |url= http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3545.html |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |title=HMS ''Umbra'' (P 35) |work= uboat.net |access-date=2007-02-25}}
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}
* {{cite book |last=Hutchinson |first=Robert |year=2001 |title=Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day |url=https://archive.org/details/janessubmarinesw0000hutc |url-access=registration |place=London |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |isbn=978-0-00-710558-8 |oclc=53783010}}

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{{British U class submarine}}

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[[Category:British U-class submarines]]
[[Category:Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness]]
[[Category:1941 ships]]
[[Category:World War II submarines of the United Kingdom]]


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