HMS Otus
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HMS
Otus was laid down at Vickers & Armstrong May 1927,
and was launched in August the following year. She was
commissioned in July 1929 and assigned to the 4th
Submarine Flotilla in the China Station. After the
outbreak of world war two she was first sent to Egypt.
then to Malta. She carried out pescort duty for convoys
including twelve war patrols,, before she in September
1943 was transferred to South Africa and used for
training. In December 1944 she was transferred to
the Reserves. She was in May 1946 sold, and the scuttled
four months later. The wreck was found in 2013 and rest
today on a depth of approx 100 meters, four nautical miles
southeast of Durban.
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