| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | O2 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in September 1946 at Durban. |
| 1915: | Lieutenant Commander | Thomas Tod Euman | |
| 1930: | Lieutenant Commander | Ian Agnew Patteson Macintyre | |
| 1934: | Lieutenant Commander | Henry Carlton Cumberbatch | |
| 1937: | Lieutenant Commander | William Eric Banks | |
| 1939: | Lieutenant Commander | Richard Sheridan-Patterson | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant Commander | John Robert Garstin Harvey | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Cyril Astell Pardoe (RNR) | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Compton Patrick Norman | |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Paul Seymour Skelton |
1929-1930: Portsmouth1930-1937: China Station 1938-1939: Portsmouth1939-1942: Mediterranean 1942-1944: East Indies
| 12-05-1927 | Laid Down |
| 19-05-1928 | Launched |
| 27-02-1929 | Completed |
| 14-08-1940 | Torpedoed and sunk the Italian steamship Leopardi. |
| 16-08-1940 | HMS Osiris sinks the Italian merchant Morea about 50 nautical miles west of Durazzo, Albania. The Morea twice evaded torpedoes so was sunk with gunfire. |
| 22-09-1940 | HMS Osiris on patrol in the southern Adriatic attacks a convoy and sinks torpedo boat Palestro |
| 14-07-1941 | HMS Osiris damages the Italian merchant Capo d'Orso with torpedo and gunfire off Argostolion, Kefalonia Island, Greece. |
| 27-06-1943 | HMS Osiris sinks the Italian sailing vessel Vittorina with gunfire north of Crete. |
| Length overall | 283 ft 6 inch |
| Beam | 30 ft |
| Depth | 16 ft 11 7/8 inch |
| Displacement | 1781 tons (surface) |
| 2038 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 500 ft |
| Speed | Surface 17 to 17.5 knots (design) 17.5 knots (service) / Submerged 9 knots (design) 8 knots (service) |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 6ft 5in dia |
| Endurance | Surface: 14000 miles at 8 knots (design) |
| Surface: 1400 miles at 8 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 60 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 8 miles at 8 knots, 52 miles at 4 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (14 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| Complement | 53 |
| Class: | 1967 - 1996: Resolution Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSBN1 |
| Fate: | |
| Decommissioned on August 28 in 1996 | |
When it was first published in 1953, opinions were sharply divided between those who deplored the apparent extolling of a vicious form of warfare, and this who found in Heinz Schaeffer s account a revealing picture of the German Navys training and methods.
U-Boat 977 was the German submarine that escaped to Argentina at the end of World War Two. This epic journey started from Bergen in Norway, where in April 1945 it was temporarily based, and took three and a half months to complete. Because of the continuing Allied naval activity the commander decided to make the first part of the journey underwater.
Before surfacing near the west coast of Africa U-977 had spent a remarkable sixty-six days submerged. Heinz Schaeffer, the commander of U-977 wrote a full account of his career that culminated in this last command. It depicts the gruelling aspects of a submariner s life aboard a vessel that was subjected to harsh conditions of the sea and oceans.
As an experienced commander Schaeffer took part in many of the decisive U-boat operations in the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. In the final months of the war, and in common with most surviving U-boat commanders, Schaeffer and his crew came under constant attacks from Allied aircraft and surface ships. The final part of U-Boat 977 is Schaeffer s account of the journey to Argentina and lays to rest some of the more fanciful sorties that followed its arrival.
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| Length overall | 283 ft 6 inch |
| Beam | 30 ft |
| Depth | 16 ft 11 7/8 inch |
| Displacement | 1781 tons (surface) |
| 2038 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 500 ft |
| Speed | Surface 17 to 17.5 knots (design) 17.5 knots (service) / Submerged 9 knots (design) 8 knots (service) |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 6ft 5in dia |
| Endurance | Surface: 14000 miles at 8 knots (design) |
| Surface: 1400 miles at 8 knots (service) | |
| Submerged: 60 miles at 4 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 8 miles at 8 knots, 52 miles at 4 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 21 inch stern tubes | |
| (14 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| Complement | 53 |
| Class: | 1967 - 1996: Resolution Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSBN1 |
| Fate: | |
| Decommissioned on August 28 in 1996 | |
When it was first published in 1953, opinions were sharply divided between those who deplored the apparent extolling of a vicious form of warfare, and this who found in Heinz Schaeffer s account a revealing picture of the German Navys training and methods.
U-Boat 977 was the German submarine that escaped to Argentina at the end of World War Two. This epic journey started from Bergen in Norway, where in April 1945 it was temporarily based, and took three and a half months to complete. Because of the continuing Allied naval activity the commander decided to make the first part of the journey underwater.
Before surfacing near the west coast of Africa U-977 had spent a remarkable sixty-six days submerged. Heinz Schaeffer, the commander of U-977 wrote a full account of his career that culminated in this last command. It depicts the gruelling aspects of a submariner s life aboard a vessel that was subjected to harsh conditions of the sea and oceans.
As an experienced commander Schaeffer took part in many of the decisive U-boat operations in the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. In the final months of the war, and in common with most surviving U-boat commanders, Schaeffer and his crew came under constant attacks from Allied aircraft and surface ships. The final part of U-Boat 977 is Schaeffer s account of the journey to Argentina and lays to rest some of the more fanciful sorties that followed its arrival.
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