| Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | O1 |
| Fate: | She was decommissioned at Blyth on 5 July 1944 and was sold for scrap on 24 August 1945. Oberon was scrapped at Dunston by Clayton and Davie |
| 1925: | Lieutenant Commander | Guy D'Oyly Hughes | DSO DSC |
| 1929: | Lieutenant Commander | Charles Ralfe Thompson | |
| 1937: | Lieutenant Commander | Eric Roland John Oddie | |
| 1939: | Lieutenant Commander | Henry Carlton Cumberbatch | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant | Cecil Bernard Crouch | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant Commander | Edward Fowle Pizey | DSO |
| 1940: | Lieutenant Commander | Peter Ronald Ward | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant Commander | George David Archibald Gregory | DSO |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Robert Evelyn Boddington | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant Commander | Peter Joseph Howell Bartlett | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Peter Robert Helfrich Harrison | DSC |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Michael Beauchamp St John | |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Norman Jack Coe (RNR) | DSC MID |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Stephen John Fovargue | |
| 1942: | Lieutenant Commander | John Wentworth McCoy | DSC |
| 1943: | Lieutenant Commander | John Bertram de Betham Kershaw | DSO |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford | DSC |
1927-1931: Portsmouth.
1931-1934: Mediterranean.
1937: Reserve.
1939 - 2nd Flotilla: HMS Forth, Dundee.
1939 - 2nd Flotilla: HMS Forth, Dundee.
1941-1944: Training Anti-Submarine Escorts.
Oberon was the first submarine to carry ASDIC - a device originally designed under the auspices of the Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee to detect submarines. However, ASDIC, the forerunner of SONAR, was put to good use by submariners against surface targets and took over from the hydrophone which was unable to measure, with any accuracy, the speed, course or distance of an enemy vessel.
| 22-03-1924 | Laid Down |
| 24-09-1926 | Launched |
| 24-08-1927 | Completed |
| 11-10-1935 | Damaged in collision with the destroyer HMS Thanet at Devonport. |
| 24-08-1945 | Sold for scrap |
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 2nd Dec, 1926 | |
| Motto | Ever shall be fortunate. | |
| Symbology | The flamboyant King of the Fairies from Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. | |
| Design Notes | A peacock's head proper rises out of a gold celestial fairy crown on a white field. |
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| Additional Notes | Motto taken from Shakesphere's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (Act V, Scene 1). | |
| Length overall | 269 ft 8 inch |
| Beam | 27 ft 11 inch |
| Depth | 16 ft 8 5/8 inch |
| Displacement | 1598 tons (surface) |
| 1831 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 500 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 13.75 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 7.5+ knots (service) | |
| Endurance | Surface: 12000 miles at 8 knots (design) |
| Surface: 6800 miles at 10 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 60 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (16 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| Complement | 5 Officers and 51 Ratings. |
Regent (N 41) |
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| Class: | 1929 - 1946: Rainbow Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | R2 |
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Fate: HMS Regent is assumed to have been lost in the Adriatic Sea off Bari between the 18th and 25th April 1943. The submarine is thought to have strayed into a minefield. The entire crew of sixty-three Officers and Ratings were lost. The first of four bodies washed up near Brindisi on 1st May 1943 and was the body of an ERA dressed in overalls and wearing a DSEA escape kit. Another was washed up at Santa Andrea di Missipezza on 15th May 1943 also wearing a DSEA kit. On 16th May either an Officer or a Petty Officer was washed up at Torre Santo Stefano, north of Otranto and, on the same day, another was washed up at Castro Marina. |
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The design of the Type XXI U-Boat was a radical step in the history of submarine development; indeed, the vessel could be said to have been the prototype of the modern conventionally-powered submarine
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 2nd Dec, 1926 | |
| Motto | Ever shall be fortunate. | |
| Symbology | The flamboyant King of the Fairies from Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. | |
| Design Notes | A peacock's head proper rises out of a gold celestial fairy crown on a white field. |
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| Additional Notes | Motto taken from Shakesphere's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (Act V, Scene 1). | |
| Length overall | 269 ft 8 inch |
| Beam | 27 ft 11 inch |
| Depth | 16 ft 8 5/8 inch |
| Displacement | 1598 tons (surface) |
| 1831 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 500 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15 knots (design) |
| Surface 13.75 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 7.5+ knots (service) | |
| Endurance | Surface: 12000 miles at 8 knots (design) |
| Surface: 6800 miles at 10 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 60 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (16 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| Complement | 5 Officers and 51 Ratings. |
Regent (N 41) |
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| Class: | 1929 - 1946: Rainbow Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | R2 |
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Fate: HMS Regent is assumed to have been lost in the Adriatic Sea off Bari between the 18th and 25th April 1943. The submarine is thought to have strayed into a minefield. The entire crew of sixty-three Officers and Ratings were lost. The first of four bodies washed up near Brindisi on 1st May 1943 and was the body of an ERA dressed in overalls and wearing a DSEA escape kit. Another was washed up at Santa Andrea di Missipezza on 15th May 1943 also wearing a DSEA kit. On 16th May either an Officer or a Petty Officer was washed up at Torre Santo Stefano, north of Otranto and, on the same day, another was washed up at Castro Marina. |
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The design of the Type XXI U-Boat was a radical step in the history of submarine development; indeed, the vessel could be said to have been the prototype of the modern conventionally-powered submarine
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