HMAS Otway (S59)

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The outer hull of HMAS Otway, at Holbrook, New South Wales
Career (Australia) RAN Ensign
Builder: Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Laid down: 29 June 1965
Launched: 29 November 1966
Commissioned: 23 April 1968
Decommissioned: 17 February 1994
Fate: Decommissioned, now a monument
General characteristics
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
Two 3680 hp (2.7 MW) Admiralty Standard Range diesel generators
Two 12,000 hp (8.9MW) English Electric main motors
Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h) (surfaced)
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
Equipped to use Harpoon anti-ship missiles

HMAS Otway (S59) 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.

HMAS Otway's stern section on display at Holbrook, New South Wales
HMAS Otway's stern section on display at Holbrook, New South Wales

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