HMS Oswald
Service
- as HMS Oswald1 May 1929 — 1 August 1940335 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Oswald
- Pennant / hull number
- N58
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
- Ordered
- 2 December 1926
- Laid down
- 30 May 1927
- Launched
- 19 June 1928
- Commissioned
- 1 May 1929
- Fate
- Sunk, 1 August 1940 (1940)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,781 long tons (1,810 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,030 long tons (2,063 t)
- Length
- 86.26 m (283 ft)
- Beam
- 9.14 m (30 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Speed
- 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h, 20.1 mph)
- Range
- 8,400 nmi (15,557 km)
- Complement
- 53
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Oswald was a Odin-class submarine built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number N58. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow on 30 May 1927. Launched on 19 June 1928, she entered service on 1 May 1929.
Eight ships of the class were built. The class followed the L class and was succeeded by the Parthian-class submarine.
The boat displaced 1,781 long tons surfaced and 2,030 long tons submerged. She measured 86.3 m (283 ft) long with a beam of 9.1 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 17.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 53. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 4,600 bhp.
She was in commission for 335 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 1 August 1940. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel-electric
- 2 × Vickers diesel engines
- 2 × electric motors
- 2 screws
- Power
- 4600 bhp (diesel)
- 350 hp (electric motor)
- Armament
- 8 × 21 in torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) with 16 reloads
- 1 × QF 4 in Mk XII deck gun
- 2 × Lewis machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Oswald on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18670/large.jpg This photograph FL 3192 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons