HMS Otus (S18)

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HMS Otus (S18) was a British Royal Navy Oberon class submarine. Built in 1962 at Scotts Yard in Greenock, Scotland, the sub's trials were conducted in Scottish waters, mainly Loch Long and Loch Fynne. Her pennant number (S18) was carried in white paint on the ship's conning tower fin, however this was removed in 1964 as a discontinued practice.

The first commission of HMS Otus included large-scale missile trial exercises in the Atlantic Ocean and visits to the United States and Halifax, Canada.

HMSS Otus was decommissioned in the early 1990s and was purchased by a German entrepreneur, who moored her in the harbour of the town of Sassnitz on the island of Rügen in Germany to act as a floating naval museum.