HMAS Otama
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HMAS Otama (S-72) was an Oberon class submarine laid down by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock in Scotland on 25 May 1973, launched on 3 December 1975 and commissioned on 27 April 1978. HMAS Otama paid off on 15 December 2000 and is preserved as a museum at Hastings in Victoria.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Australia also ordered five other O-class submarines: HMAS Oxley, HMAS Otway, HMAS Ovens, HMAS Onslow and HMAS Orion.
[edit] External links
- 'Sub group fights battle of Hastings' - April 22, 2004 article in The Age newspaper on the future of the Otama
- - Current location of this submarine.
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 |
Royal Canadian Navy |
Ojibwa | Okanagan | Onondaga | Olympus | Osiris |
Brazilian Navy |
Humaita | Riachuelo | Tonelero |
Chilean Navy |
O'Brien | Hyatt |
List of submarines of the Royal Navy |
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