HMS Oberon (S09)

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HMS Oberon was the first of the Oberon-class submarines. She was built by HM Dockyard, Chatham and was laid down on 28 November 1957. She was commissioned on 24 February 1961.

Oberon cost £2.43 million. She was the first of the class to have a deeper casing installed to house the equipment for initial training of SSN crews.

Oberon was paid off in 1986.

v • d • e Oberon-class submarine  Royal Navy Oberon • Ocelot • Odin • Olympus • Onslaught • Onyx • Opportune • Opossum • Oracle • Orpheus • Osiris • Otter • Otus  Royal Australian Navy Onslow • Orion • Otama • Otway • Ovens • Oxley  Canadian Forces Maritime Command Ojibwa • Okanagan • Onondaga • Olympus • Osiris  Brazilian Navy Humaita • Riachuelo • Tonelero  Chilean Navy O'Brien • Hyatt List of submarines of the Royal Navy · List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

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• Submarines, war beneath the waves, from 1776 to the present day, by Robert Hutchinson
• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.