HMAS Otway (S59)
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 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 |
| 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 |
For other ships of the same name, see HMAS Otway.
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.
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