HMAS Onslow
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| Career Australia |  |
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| Builder: | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company |
| Laid down: | 26 May 1967 |
| Launched: | 3 December 1968 |
| Commissioned: | 22 December 1969. |
| Decommissioned: | 1997 |
| Status: | Preserved at the Australian National Maritime Museum |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2400 tons |
| Length: | 90 m |
| Beam: | 8.1 m |
| Draught: | 5.5 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, two 3680 hp (2.7 MW) Admiralty Standard Range diesel generators, two 12000 hp (8.9 MW) English Electric main motors |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 knots sumberged) |
| Range: | 17,000 km at 12 knots |
| Complement: | 62 |
| Armament: | 8 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern. 24 torpedoes) Equipped to use Harpoon missiles |
HMAS Onslow (S-60), named for Onslow in Western Australia, was an Oberon class submarine laid down by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock in Scotland on 26 May 1967. On 17 July 1968, she was slightly damaged by fire, delaying her launch until 3 December 1968. Onlsow commissioned on 22 December 1969 and served in the 1st Submarine Squadron, based at HMAS Platypus at Neutral Bay in Sydney.
HMAS Onslow paid off in 1997 and is preserved at the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour in Sydney.
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