Name HMS Oswald Laid down 30 May 1927 Construction started 30 May 1927 Length 86 m | Ordered 2 December 1926 Commissioned 1 May 1929 Fate Sunk, 1 August 1940 Launched 19 June 1928 Draft 4.9 m | |
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Similar HMS Orpheus (N46), HMS Osiris (N67), HMS Otus (N92) | ||
HMS Oswald was an Odin-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the 1920s.
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Construction and career
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.
Loss
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.
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