HMS Olympus (S12)

HMS Olympus was an Oberon-class submarine in the Royal Navy, and later Canadian Forces as a submarine trainer.

Construction
She was laid down 4 March 1960 at Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow and launched 14 June 1961.

Operational history
Retired from the Royal Navy, Olympus was sold to the Canadian Forces in 1989 and was stationed as a non-operational training boat in Halifax. The ship was never commissioned and was disposed of along with the other Canadian Oberon-class submarines in the late 1990s.

In 1986, Olympus appeared in the popular UK Channel 4 television game show Treasure Hunt. After rendezvousing with the submarine a few miles out of Plymouth Sound, presenter Anneka Rice watched on from the show's famous yellow helicopter as Olympus surfaced, before landing on her hull and receiving the episode's second clue from the vessel's captain, Lt. Cmdr. John Tuckett.

Fate
In May 2005, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald announced that Maritime Command (MARCOM) was looking to sell Olympus and three other Canadian Oberons for scrap metal. MARCOM stated that the submarines were not in suitable condition to be used as museum ships, and predicted that each submarine would sell for between C$50,000 and C$60,000.

In July 2011, Olympus started making her journey from Halifax to a scrapyard (International Marine Salvage) in Port Maitland, Ontario.