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{{short description|Submarine of the Royal Navy}}
{{other ships|HMS P48}}

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| Ship image = Hms p48 submarine.jpg
| Ship caption = HMS ''P48'' on the surface, passing the bridge at [[Buccleuch Dock]], [[Barrow in Furness]]
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| Ship country = [[United Kingdom]]
| Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}}
| Ship name = HMS ''P48''
| Ship ordered = 23 August 1940
| Ship awarded = 
| Ship builder = [[Vickers Armstrong]], [[Barrow-in-Furness]]
| Ship laid down = 2 August 1941
| Ship launched = 15 April 1942
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| Ship commissioned = 18 June 1942
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| Ship fate = Missing since 23 December 1942
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| Ship class = [[British U class submarine|U-class]]
| Ship displacement = *Surfaced – 545 tons standard, 630 tons full load
*Submerged – 740 tons
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*two diesel generators + electric motors
*615 / 825 hp
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| Ship armament = *Four bow internal [[British 21 inch torpedo|21 inch (533 mm)]] torpedo tubes; 8 torpedoes
*One [[QF 3 inch 20 cwt|{{convert|3|in|mm|adj=on}}]] gun
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'''HMS ''P48''''' was a [[Royal Navy]] [[British U class submarine|U-class]] [[submarine]] built by [[Vickers-Armstrong]] at [[Barrow-in-Furness]]. Commissioned on 18 June 1942, Vickers arranged for the wife of serving submarine Captain, Alister Mars of HMS Unbroken, Ting Mars and Commander of the cruiser Jamaica to officially launch P.48 at Barrow dockyard.

After an initial patrol in the [[Norwegian Sea]], ''P48'' spent most of her career in the Mediterranean Sea. She sailed to [[Gibraltar]], then was assigned to the [[10th Submarine Flotilla]] which was based in [[Malta]]. After an uneventful patrol, she departed port on her last patrol, on 23 December 1942. She is thought to have been sunk two days later whilst attacking an Italian convoy in the [[Gulf of Tunis]] heading towards [[Tunis]], from [[depth charge]]s launched by the Italian [[torpedo boat]] {{ship|Italian torpedo boat|Ardente||2}}, northwest of the island of [[Zembra]].

The vessel and her crew were honoured and immortalized by the nephew of one of the lost sailors (Lt. Stephen E. Spring Rice, RNVR), English musician [[Thomas Dolby]], in the August 1982 song "[[One of Our Submarines]]".

==Design and description==
The third batch was slightly enlarged and improved over the preceding second batch of the U class. The submarines had a length of {{convert|196.75|ft|m|1}} [[length overall|overall]] and [[displacement (ship)|displaced]] {{convert|545|LT|t}} on the surface and {{convert|740|LT|t}} submerged. The U-class submarines had a crew of 31 officers and [[naval rating|ratings]].<ref name=u-uboat>{{cite web |last1=Helgason |first1=Guðmundur |title=U class submarines |url=https://uboat.net/allies/warships/class/50.html |website=uboat.net |access-date=19 December 2018}}</ref>

''P48'' was powered on the surface by two [[diesel engine]]s providing a total of {{convert|615|bhp|lk=in|0|adj=on}} and when submerged by two [[electric motor]]s with a total of {{convert|825|hp|0|adj=on}} through two [[propeller shaft]]s. The maximum speed was {{convert|14.25|kn|lk=in}} on the surface and {{convert|9|kn}} underwater.<ref name=u-uboat/>

''P48'' was armed with four 21-inch [[torpedo tube]]s in the bow and also carried four reloads for a grand total of eight torpedoes. The boat was also equipped with a [[QF 3-inch 20 cwt|3-inch (76&nbsp;mm)]] [[deck gun]].<ref name=u-uboat/>

==Construction and service==
Ordered on 23 August 1940, ''P48'' was [[laid down]] on 2 August 1941 by [[Vickers Armstrong]] at [[Barrow-in-Furness]], then [[ship launching|launched]] on 15 April 1942. She was [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 18 June 1942 at [[Holy Loch]], then conducted training and diving tests in the [[River Clyde]] area. After additional tests with torpedoes off [[Arrochar, Argyll|Arrochar]], the submarine then sailed for [[Lerwick]], arriving on 17 July.<ref name=uboat>{{cite web |last1=Helgason |first1=Guðmundur |title=HMS P48 (P48)|url=https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3555.html|website=uboat.net |access-date=19 December 2018}}</ref>

The next day on 18 July, ''P48'' departed Lerwick for an anti-submarine patrol in the [[Norwegian Sea]]. The patrol was uneventful, and she returned to port on 29 July. After passing through Holy Loch and [[Rothesay]], the boat departed for [[Gibraltar]] on 12 August; after one week at sea, she was ordered to search for a German tanker, but suffered flooding in her auxiliary machinery, forcing her to abandon her patrol and continue to Gibraltar. On 23 August, ''P48'' arrived and underwent repairs, then exercises until 27 September.<ref name=uboat/>

Between 29 September and 6 October 1942, ''P48'' conducted another patrol, in the [[Alboran Sea]], but did not record any sinkings. On 31 October, ''P48'' departed Gibraltar for another patrol in the Mediterranean, with orders to conduct a special landing operation off [[Algiers]], then proceed to [[Malta]]. Her armament had been reduced to six torpedoes overall to make space for the extra equipment. On 4 October, ''P48'' launched a landing party in a [[folbot]], then acted as a directional radio beacon during the [[Operation Torch|Allied landings]] three days later. After being ordered to patrol off [[Bizerte]], Tunisia, ''P48'' sighted an enemy merchant ship and attacked it with three torpedoes, but missed. After another unsuccessful attack, the submarine ended her patrol in Malta and joined the [[10th Submarine Flotilla]] which was based there.<ref name=uboat/>

On 26 November, ''P48'' started another patrol, northeast of Tunisia. One week later, she attacked a German-Italian convoy, but did not obtain any hits; she was subsequently attacked with [[depth charges]] by escorting ships but was not damaged. On 5 December, the boat launched three torpedoes at a German merchant ship, escorted by a destroyer. The torpedoes missed, however, and ''P48'' was again attacked, but escaped unscathed. the submarine returned to Malta on 8 December.<ref name=uboat/>

HMS ''P48'' departed [[Malta]] on her last patrol on 23 December 1942, under the command of Lieutenant M.E. Faber. Two days later, while attacking a large Italian convoy, an escorting aircraft fired bursts of machine-gun fire into the sea to signal the presence of an enemy submarine. Seconds later, the escorting Italian [[torpedo boat]] {{ship|Italian torpedo boat|Ardente||2}} made sonar contact with a target, then attacked it with 48 depth charges. A large oil patch 100–150 metres in diameter was observed in position {{Coord|37|17|N|10|32|E}} and the crew of the torpedo boat claimed the submarine sunk. It is most likely that the submarine was ''P48'', but her wreck was not found and it is possible that she was sunk elsewhere later. The submarine was officially declared overdue on 5 January 1943.<ref name=uboat/>

==Citations==
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==References==
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}
* {{cite book | last = Hutchinson | first = Robert | title = Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day | url = https://archive.org/details/janessubmarinesw0000hutc | url-access = registration | year = 2001 | location = [[London]] | publisher = [[HarperCollins]] | isbn = 978-0-00-710558-8 | oclc = 53783010 }}

{{British U class submarine}}
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