HMS ONYX S21 IN DOCK 5

HMS ONYX A BRITISH OBERON CLASS SUBMARINE 1967

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS BULKHEAD WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS ( MUCH MORE TO UPGRADED )

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Name: HMS Onyx
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down: 16 November 1964
Launched: 18 August 1966
Commissioned: 20 November 1967
Decommissioned: 1991
Motto:

Taurus excreta cerebrum vincit
(Dog Latin: "Bullshit Baffles Brains")

Fate: Scrapped May 2014
General characteristics as designed
Class and type: Oberon class
Displacement:

1,610 tons standard
2,030 tons full load surfaced
2,410 tons full load submerged

Length:

241 feet (73 m) between perpendiculars
295.2 feet (90.0 m) length overall

Beam: 26.5 feet (8.1 m)
Draught: 18 feet (5.5 m)
Propulsion:

2 × Admiralty Standard Range 16 VMS diesel generators
2 × 6,000 shaft horsepower (4,500 kW) electric motors
2 shafts

Speed:

17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) submerged
12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) surfaced

Complement: 68 (6 officers, 62 enlisted)
Sensors and
processing systems:

Type 186 and Type 187 sonars
I-band surface search radar

Armament:

8 × 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes (6 forward, 2 aft)
24 torpedoes

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Rosneath Jetty on the Gare Loch, Scotland Illegally scrapped 2014

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