Oberon Class Sub - Cdn$4 + gst

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Robert Dabkowski

Gents,

I just saw the CTV national news announce that a museum in Quebec has bought one of the 4 retired Canadian diesel submarines. For $4.15 Cdn.

Maybe you misheard the report and it was a gallon of Diesel at some Marina for $4.15?

No, it's true. The HMCS Onondaga was bought by a Quebec naval museum, the Musée de la Mer de Pointe-au-Pere in Rimouski, Que., but that was back in 2005! HMCS Onondaga was towed from Halifax to Rimouski by way of the Canso Canal in July 2008. Maybe it's only just been put on display now?


The RAN also had six Oberon Class subs, the HMAS's Oxley, Otway, Onslow, Orion, Otama and Ovens. Only three and a half remain, with the HMAS Onslow being an exhibit at the Sydney Maritime Museum, HMAS Ovens at a museum in Fremantle, WA, HMAS Otama being owned by a preservation group in Melbourne, Vic, and the outer casing of HMAS Otway being a feature in a park in the inland town of Holbrook, NSW.

HMAS in these cases stands for Her Majesty's Australian SUBMARINE. Submariners are very particular that their vessels are called boats, not Ships, those being reserved as targets.

The Royal Navy had 14 Oberon subs, Australia 6, Canada 3 (plus 2 bought ex UK for training and spares) and Chile 2.