| 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. (Act V, Scene 1). | |
| Symbology | King of the Fairies in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. | |
| Design Notes | A peacock's head proper rises out of a gold celestial crown on a white background. |
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| 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. |
| Class: | 1943 - 1977: Amphion Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Amphion |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped in October 1970 at Dunston. | |
July 1945. Eighteen young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from a top-secret underwater warfare unit prepare to undertake three audacious missions against the Japanese.
Using XE-craft midget submarines, the raiders will creep deep behind Japanese lines to sink two huge warships off Singapore and sever two vitally important undersea communications cables. Success will hasten ultimate victory over Japan; but if any of the men are captured they can expect a gruesome execution.
Can the Sea Devils overcome Japanese defences, mechanical failures, oxygen poisoning and submarine disasters to fulfil their missions? Mark Felton tells the true story of a band of young men living on raw courage, nerves and adrenalin as they attempt to pull off what could be the last great raid of World War Two.
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 2nd Dec, 1926 | |
| Motto | Ever shall be fortunate. (Act V, Scene 1). | |
| Symbology | King of the Fairies in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. | |
| Design Notes | A peacock's head proper rises out of a gold celestial crown on a white background. |
|
| 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. |
| Class: | 1943 - 1977: Amphion Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Amphion |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped in October 1970 at Dunston. | |
July 1945. Eighteen young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from a top-secret underwater warfare unit prepare to undertake three audacious missions against the Japanese.
Using XE-craft midget submarines, the raiders will creep deep behind Japanese lines to sink two huge warships off Singapore and sever two vitally important undersea communications cables. Success will hasten ultimate victory over Japan; but if any of the men are captured they can expect a gruesome execution.
Can the Sea Devils overcome Japanese defences, mechanical failures, oxygen poisoning and submarine disasters to fulfil their missions? Mark Felton tells the true story of a band of young men living on raw courage, nerves and adrenalin as they attempt to pull off what could be the last great raid of World War Two.
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