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Sponsorship Comments

Commander Julian Beauchamp Royal Navy who was the second Commanding Officer of the more modern conventional submarine HMS/M Olympus sponsored this painting.

Technical Data

Builder:	Vickers Armstrong Limited
Ordered:	02.12.1926
Launched:	19.05.1928
Completed:	27.02.1929
Cost to complete:	£280,000
Pennant Number:	67
Yard No:	633
Dimensions (in feet and inches ):	Length: 283f 3", Diameter: 16f 9", Draught: 15f 4"
Displacement:	Surface 1,475 tons, Submerged 2.030 tons.
Machinery:	Surfaced: Twin diesel engines - 4,400 bhp. Submerged Twin electric motors 1,325 bhp
Speed:	Surfaced: 17.5 knots, Submerged: 9 knots.
Endurance:	Surfaced: 8,500 nautical miles at 10 knots or 11,400 nautical miles at 8 knots. Submerged: 52 nautical miles at 4 knots on battery power.
Armaments:	8 x 21 inch Torpedo tubes, 6 bow 2 stern, 14 torpedoes carried.
Complement:	53 officers and men.

Historical Data

Odin Class

Of the six submarines of this class, three were built at the shipyard in Barrow,

Osiris, Oswald and Otus, the lead submarine Odin being built at the Royal Dockyard in Chatham.

On commissioning the entire class were sent to the Far East until 1940, when they were sent to the Mediterranean.

HMS/M Osiris

On the 14 th August 1940 sank the Italian Steam Ship Leopard (3,296 tons). September 1940 she sank the Italian Torpedo boat Palestro (890 Tons). Osiris was also responsible for the sinking of several smaller vessels.

In 1943 Osiris was sent to Durban in South Africa as an anti-submarine training boat.

September 1946 she was scrapped at Durban. Osiris was the only boat of the class to survive WWII.

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