HMCS Onondaga (S73)

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HMCS Onondaga © Canada, Department of National Defence
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Colours:	White and blue
Motto:	Invicta (Unconquered)
Badge:	Blazon Azure, within a representation of the wampum of the Iroquois nation, another of the head of the mace used at the sitting of the first Parliament of Upper Canada in 1792, both proper.

HMCS Onondaga (S73) was an Oberon class submarine in the Royal Canadian Navy, later Canadian Forces. Built at Chatham Dockyard in England, Onondaga was commissioned into the RCN on 22 June 1968 and wears pennant 73. Onondaga was based at Halifax, Nova Scotia until she was replaced by the newer Victoria class submarines.

Onondaga was decommissioned in 2000, and was the last Canadian Oberon to be decommissioned. She served in the North Atlantic, but was never involved in a combat situation.

In May 2005, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald announced that the Royal Canadian Navy was looking to sell Onondaga for scrap metal, along with three other Canadian Oberons. The RCN's disposal co-ordinator 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.^[1] The sale of Onondaga did not go ahead, with the submarine later sold to Musée de la Mer, Rimouski.^[2]