![]() Oswald before the Second World War
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Name | HMS Oswald |
Ordered | 2 December 1926 |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow |
Laid down | 30 May 1927 |
Launched | 19 June 1928 |
Commissioned | 1 May 1929 |
Identification | Pennant number: N58 |
Fate | Sunk, 1 August 1940 |
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Class and type | Odin-class submarine |
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Length | 283 ft 6 in (86.4 m) |
Beam | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
Draught | 16 ft 1 in (4.9 m) |
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Test depth | 300 ft (91 m) |
Complement | 53–55 officers and ratings |
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HMS Oswald was an Odin-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the 1920s.
Construction and career
[edit]She was laid down by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow-in-Furness on 30 May 1927, launched on 19 June 1928 and commissioned on 1 May 1929.[1]
Loss
[edit]Oswald left Alexandria, Egypt, for a patrol east of Sicily on 19 July 1940. On 30 July, she spotted a convoy of several merchant ships. Her attack on the convoy was not successful and she was spotted by the convoy's escorting destroyers. Subsequently, on 1 August Oswald was rammed and sunk by the Italian destroyer Ugolino Vivaldi while on patrol south of Calabria; 52 crewmen were rescued by Italian warships and 3 were lost.[2][3]
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Citations
[edit]- ^ "HMS Oswald". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
- ^ Lenton, p. 44
- ^ Heden, p. 229
Bibliography
[edit]- Heden, Karl E. (2006). Sunken Ships, World War Two. Branden Books. ISBN 978-0-8283-2118-1.
- Lenton, H. T. (1972). British Submarines. Navies of the Second World War. London: MacDonald. ISBN 978-0-356-03612-0.