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HMS Oswald was an Odin-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the 1920s.

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

Bibliography

  • 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.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Oswald_(N58)