For other ships of the same name, see HMS Ulleswater.
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A Destroyer Torpedoed. (hms Ullswater) Art.IWMART1351.jpg A painting of the sinking of HMS Ulleswater by Charles Pears | |
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| Name: | HMS Ulleswater |
| Ordered: | 1916 |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow |
| Laid down: | 1916 |
| Launched: | 4 August 1917 |
| Fate: | Sunk on 15 August 1918 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Yarrow M-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 930 long tons (940 t) |
| Length: | 273 ft 6 in (83.36 m) |
| Beam: | 25 ft 7 1⁄2 in (7.81 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
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| Speed: | 36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h) |
| Complement: | 82 |
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HMS Ulleswater (or Ullswater) was an Yarrow Later M-class destroyer which fought in the First World War as part of the Royal Navy.[1][2]
She was ordered and laid down in 1916 at Yarrow Shipbuilders, being completed and launched on 4 August 1917.[1][2][3]
In April 1918, the ship was assigned to 'Outer Patrol off Zeebrugge' during the Zeebrugge Raid.
On 15 August 1918, she was sunk by German submarine U-71[4] or UC-17[1][2][5] in the North Sea. Five sailors were reported to have died.[6]
There is a painting of the sinking by the war artist Charles Pears in the Imperial War Museum.[7]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "HMS Ullswater". The Dreadnought Project. http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/H.M.S._Ulleswater_(1917).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Randall, Ian (1997). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921. Conway Maritime. p. 81. ISBN 978-0851772455.
- ↑ "Destroyers – World War 1". Harwich and Dover Court. https://www.harwichanddovercourt.co.uk/warships/destroyers-2/.
- ↑ "HMS Ulleswater". Uboat.net. http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/6193.html.
- ↑ Rower, R.P.P (2022). A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War. DigiCat. p. 143.
- ↑ "HMS Ulleswater (F83) (+1918)". Wrecksite. https://wrecksite.eu/peopleView.aspx?AW3jCC0JIJL0SeQoKOMxdQ==.
- ↑ "A Destroyer Torpedoed. HMS Ullswater". IWM. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/21387.
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