HMAS Onslow

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Career (Australia)
Builder:	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Laid down:	26 May 1967
Launched:	3 December 1968
Commissioned:	22 December 1969
Decommissioned:	29 March 1999
Motto:	Festina Lente (Latin: "Hasten Slowly")
Nickname:	Go Slow, a play on both name and motto
Fate:	Preserved at the Australian National Maritime Museum
General characteristics
Class and type:	Oberon-class submarine
Displacement:	2,400 tons
Length:	90 metres (295 ft 3 in)
Beam:	8.1 metres (26 ft 7 in)
Draught:	5.5 metres (18 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:	2 shafts 2 × Admiralty Standard Range diesel generators 3,680 hp (2.7 MW) 2 × English Electric main motors 12,000 hp (8.9 MW)
Speed:	12 knots (22 km/h) 22 knots (41 km/h) submerged
Range:	17,000 kilometres (9,200 nmi) at 12 knots
Complement:	62
Armament:	8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern. 24 torpedoes) Harpoon missiles

HMAS Onslow (S-60) was an Oberon-class submarine, named after an Australian river whose name in turn was derived from a pioneering family famous in early Australian history (the town of Onslow in Western Australia was also named after a family member)[1].

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. Onslow 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 29 March 1999 [2]and is preserved at the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour in Sydney.

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[edit] External links

• Australian National Maritime Museum
• HNSA Ship Page: HMAS Onslow

Coordinates: 33°52.155′S 151°11.997′E / -33.86925, 151.19995 (HMAS Onslow)