HMS_Oswald_(N58)

HMS <i>Oswald</i> (N58)

HMS Oswald (N58)

Submarine of the Royal Navy

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.[1]

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.[2][3]

Citations

  1. [1]
    "HMS Oswald". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  2. [2]
    Lenton, p. 44
  3. [3]
    Heden, p. 229

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