| 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 |
| 1928: | Lieutenant Commander | Gerald Edward Colpoys | |
| 1929: | Lieutenant Commander | Charles Ralfe Thompson | |
| 1930: | Lieutenant Commander | Frank Louis Merriman | |
| 1934: | Lieutenant Commander | David Edward Gillespie Wemyss | |
| 1937: | Lieutenant Commander | Eric Roland John Oddie | |
| 1939: | Lieutenant Commander | Henry Carlton Cumberbatch | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant | Cecil Bernard Crouch | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant Commander | Peter Ronald Ward | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant Commander | Edward Fowle Pizey | DSO |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Peter Robert Helfrich Harrison | DSC |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Robert Evelyn Boddington | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant Commander | Peter Joseph Howell Bartlett | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Michael Beauchamp St John | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant Commander | George David Archibald Gregory | DSO |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Stephen John Fovargue | |
| 1942: | Lieutenant Commander | John Wentworth McCoy | DSC |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Norman Jack Coe (RNR) | DSC MID |
| 1942: | Lieutenant Commander | Peter Joseph Howell Bartlett | |
| 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. |
Scorcher (P 258) |
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
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Fate: Scrapped Charlestown 14th September 1962. |
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An Angry Crowd swarms around a small prison. Inside General Sajid Khan stares stoically at his captors. Responsible for genocide and the mass murder of thousands of people, the deposed Warlord is being held unil trial.
The guards scramble but Khan remains calm. One week later Naval Headquarters are told that there's an explosion on an Australian Cruise Ship. This is the second attack and no one knows who is responsible, although Kahn goes missing.
Captain Will Hanley discovers that Kahn has spent his considerable fortune on a renovated Russian Submarine, complete with nuclear missiles which he plans to launch at a city untouched by terrorism, Los Angeles.
Hanley manages to find Khan but the action culmintes in an explosive battle alongside a dangerous reef, where failure will have an unbearable cost.
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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. |
|
| 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. |
Scorcher (P 258) |
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | S3 |
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Fate: Scrapped Charlestown 14th September 1962. |
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An Angry Crowd swarms around a small prison. Inside General Sajid Khan stares stoically at his captors. Responsible for genocide and the mass murder of thousands of people, the deposed Warlord is being held unil trial.
The guards scramble but Khan remains calm. One week later Naval Headquarters are told that there's an explosion on an Australian Cruise Ship. This is the second attack and no one knows who is responsible, although Kahn goes missing.
Captain Will Hanley discovers that Kahn has spent his considerable fortune on a renovated Russian Submarine, complete with nuclear missiles which he plans to launch at a city untouched by terrorism, Los Angeles.
Hanley manages to find Khan but the action culmintes in an explosive battle alongside a dangerous reef, where failure will have an unbearable cost.
15 pages added or updated in the last 2 months
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