HMS Oswald (N58) explained

HMS Oswald was an 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 while on patrol south of Calabria; 52 crewmen were rescued by Italian warships and 3 were lost.^{[2] [3]}

Bibliography

• Book: Heden, Karl E. . Sunken Ships, World War Two . Branden Books . 2006 . 978-0-8283-2118-1.
• Book: Lenton . H. T. . Navies of the Second World War . British Submarines . 1972 . MacDonald . London . 978-0-356-03612-0.

Notes and References

1. Web site: HMS Oswald . Uboat.net . 21 November 2015.
2. Lenton, p. 44
3. Heden, p. 229