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Majorman · Dec 19, 2022

This one is for Old. Many miles from the sea, in the middle of a town, on the town green space, we came across a submarine!!!!!
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MarkB_MI · Dec 19, 2022

That's an interesting sub. In addition to the large sonar dome (if that's what it is), it doesn't seem to have any torpedo tubes. What do you know about it?

Pete in MD · Dec 19, 2022

Sonar domes are mounted on the bottom below the keel. It might be a compartment to launch special forces type personnel (UDT?) and their equipment.

Steven Allen · Dec 19, 2022

(quoted from post at 10:16:29 12/19/22) Sonar domes are mounted on the bottom below the keel. It might be a compartment to launch special forces type personnel (UDT?) and their equipment.

Up forward like that? It doesn't appear to be connected to the pressure hull. I'd bet it's a sonar dome. Looks like maybe for an SQS-26.

4wdtom · Dec 19, 2022

I too am wonder about that dome! Maybe somebody will know for sure.

Blackhole49 · Dec 19, 2022

Maybe one of these.
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old · Dec 19, 2022

It is not like the Brit sub I got to go on years ago but it is still a sub but it sure did get lost

Majorman · Dec 19, 2022

Think it is the Sonar Dome. The sub is in the town of Holbrook, NSW, which is named after a British submarine commander of WW1 who sailed through the heavily guarded Dardanelles to sink Turkish shipping. A scale model of his sub. is on the other side of the park and is quite a bit smaller.

When the Australian Navy were scrapping this submarine, the town council bought it from the scrap man to be a tourist attraction in their town, it is only the top half of the vessel so no torpedo tubes.
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showcrop · Dec 19, 2022

It looks like surface radar to me. A lot of cold war era subs had them.

Doug - Iowa · Dec 19, 2022

I like to see them displayed like that, many times the organization tries to display them on the water and the maintenance to keep them afloat becomes unsustainable. We have a couple on display here in the midwest that are landlocked in sand, and the veteran's organization that maintains them does very well on donations. Safest way to preserve these relics.

MarkB_MI · Dec 19, 2022

Ah, so it's the HMAS Otway, commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 1994. It is an Oberon-class sub, which was armed with torpedoes as well as Harpoon anti-ship missiles. The large dome on the bow is for the sonar systems; the Australian Oberons used different sonar and radar system than the British boats, so the bows on the Aussie subs are different.
HMAS Otway

cdmn · Dec 19, 2022

Like the USS South Dakota memorial in Sioux Falls, SD. They only preserved part of it.
Australia and submarines bring to mind the book and movie: On the Beach.

Texasmark · Dec 21, 2022

The WWI Dreadnaught Battleship Texas sits at the site of the San Jacinto battlefield South of Houston, Tx. She is sitting in concrete. Also there is the 500+ foot San Jacinto Monument with an observation area at the top under the Lone Star(Texas identifies itself as the Lone Star State). Models of the early days of Texas fill the atrium on the ground floor. Both are worth a day's visit. Very impressive.

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