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Originally Posted by Krauter
The Undine is the Allied U class (seems Ubi thought giving them all a Generic British sub would be fitting instead of just throwing the SH4 Model subs in for the Americans..)
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Hardly generic
HMS Undine was the first of the U class subs - sometimes called the Undine class
U class subs were fairly effective esp in the med with HMS Upholder
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She was commanded for her entire career by lieutenant-commander Malcolm David Wanklyn, and became the most successful British submarine of the Second World War. After a working up period, she left for Malta on 10 December 1940 and was attached to the 10th Submarine Flotilla based there. She completed 24 patrols, sinking around 120,000 tons of enemy shipping including the destroyer Libeccio after the Battle of the Duisburg Convoy, a cruiser, three U-boats (among which the Italian submarine Saint Bon), three troop transports, ten cargo ships, two tankers and a trawler. Wanklyn was awarded the Victoria Cross for a patrol in her in 1941 when he attacked a particularly well defended convoy and sank the 18,000 ton Italian liner SS Conte Rosso. She also damaged the Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi.
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49 built in 4 groups and also loaned out to serve with the Soviets,Dutch,Polish,Norwegian,Free French and Greek navies
So one class gave Ubi more options to fill rosters
I guess they could have added the 6 Gato from Subron 50 from Sept 42 to July 43