HMAS Otway (S-59)
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For other ships of this name, see HMAS Otway.
The outer hull of HMAS Otway, at Holbrook, New South Wales |
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Career Australia | |
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Builder: | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company |
Laid down: | 29 June 1965 |
Launched: | 29 November 1966 |
Commissioned: | 23 April 1968 |
Decommissioned: | 17 February 1994 |
Status: | Decomissioned, now a monument |
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 |
The second HMAS Otway (S-59) was an Oberon class submarine laid down by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock in Scotland on 29 June 1965, launched on 29 November 1966 and commissioned on 23 April 1968.
HMAS Otway paid off on 17 February 1994 and was sold in November 1995. The casing and fin of Otway is on display at a park at Holbrook in southern New South Wales.
Oberon-class submarine |
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Royal Australian Navy |
Onslow | Orion | Otama | Otway | Ovens | Oxley |
Royal Canadian Navy |
Ojibwa | Okanagan | Onondaga | Olympus | Osiris |
Brazilian Navy |
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O'Brien | Hyatt |
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