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Oberon (N 21)

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
Oberon (N 21)
Oberon (N 21)
Oberon
Oberon

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Commanders
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.

Events

 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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