HMAS Ovens

HMAS Ovens at the Western Australian Maritime Museum
History
Australia
Builder	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Laid down	17 June 1966
Launched	4 December 1967
Commissioned	18 April 1969
Decommissioned	1 December 1995
Status	Museum ship since November 1998
General characteristics
Class and type	Oberon-class submarine
Displacement	1,610 tons standard 2,030 tons surfaced 2,410 tons submerged
Length	295.2 ft (90.0 m)
Beam	26.5 ft (8.1 m)
Draught	18 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion	2 × Admiralty Standard Range supercharged V16 diesel generators 2 × English Electric motors 3,500 bhp, 4,500 shp 2 shafts
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) surfaced 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) submerged 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) at snorkel depth
Range	9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Test depth	200 metres (660 ft)
Complement	As launched: 8 officers, 56 sailors At decommissioning: 8 officers, 60 sailors
Sensors and processing systems	Sonar: Atlas Elektronik Type CSU3-41 bow array BAC Type 2007 flank array Sperry BQG-4 Micropuffs rangefinding array Radar: Kelvin Hughes Type 1006
Armament	Torpedo tubes: 6 × 21-inch (53 cm) bow tubes 2 × short-length 21-inch (53 cm) stern tubes (later removed) 1996 payload: Mix of 20: Mark 48 Mod 4 torpedoes UGM-84 Sub Harpoon missiles

HMAS Ovens (S 70) is an Oberon-class submarine, formerly of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was one of six Oberons built for the Royal Australian Navy by the Scottish Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, and entered service in 1969. The vessel was named for Irishman and Australian explorer John Ovens (1788–1825) and for whom the Victorian river Ovens was named. During her career, Ovens was the first RAN submarine to deploy with the ANZUK force, and the first RAN submarine to fire an armed Mark 48 torpedo, sinking the target ship Colac. The boat was decommissioned in 1995, and is preserved at the Western Australian Maritime Museum as a museum ship.