HNoMS Ula (1943)

HNoMS Ula
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Varne
Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down	29 April 1942
Launched	22 January 1943
Out of service	April 1943 transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy
Badge
Norway
Name	HNoMS Ula
Acquired	April 1943 transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy
Commissioned	3 April 1943
Fate	Scrapped, 1965 at Hamburg
General characteristics
Class and type	U-class submarine
Displacement	Surfaced : 540 long tons (549 t) standard 639 long tons (649 t) full load Submerged : 740 long tons (752 t)
Length	60 m (196 ft 10 in)
Beam	4.9 m (16 ft 1 in)
Draught	4.62 m (15 ft 2 in)
Propulsion	Diesel-electric 2 × Paxman-Ricardo diesel engines, 615 hp (459 kW) Electric motors, 825 hp (615 kW) 2 shafts
Speed	11.25 knots (20.84 km/h; 12.95 mph) surfaced 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) submerged
Complement	33
Armament	6 × 21 in (533 mm) bow torpedo tubes (4 internal, 2 external) 8–10 torpedoes 1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun 3 × AA machine guns

HNoMS Ula, previously HMS Varne, a British-built U-class submarine, and a member of the third group of that class to be built. She never actually served under the name Varne, being transferred before commissioning to the exiled Royal Norwegian Navy as HNoMS Ula (S300). In 1944 she sank a German U-boat during one of her patrols off Norway. She remained in Norwegian service and was scrapped in 1965.