HMS Otway
Service
- 15 June 1927 — 10 May 1930
- 10 April 1931 — 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Otway
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs
- Laid down
- March 1925
- Launched
- 7 September 1926
- Commissioned
- 15 June 1927
- Decommissioned
- 10 May 1930
- Fate
- Scrapped in August 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,870 long tons (1,900 t)
- Length
- 83.82 m (275 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.84 m (29 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h, 17.8 mph)
- Complement
- 54
HMS Otway was a Odin-class submarine, operated by the Royal Australian Navy. Vickers-Armstrongs laid her keel in March 1925. She entered service on 15 June 1927, having been launched on 7 September 1926.
Eight ships of the class were built. The class followed the L class and was succeeded by the Parthian-class submarine.
The boat displaced 1,350 long tons surfaced and 1,870 long tons submerged. She measured 83.8 m (275 ft) long with a beam of 8.8 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 15.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 54.
Her main battery was one 102 mm (4 in) guns.
She served with the Royal Australian Navy until 10 May 1930. She then passed to the Royal Navy from 10 April 1931. She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 10 May 1930.
She was broken up for scrap in August 1945.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel motors for surface running and electricity generation, electric motors when submerged
- Armament
- 1 x 4 in gun, 8 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow tubes, 2 stern tubes), 2 x machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Otway on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unsure, but photo taken c 1930 — http://forum.sub-driver.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=16553&d=1351690557 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons