Submarines Association Australia
Queensland Inc.

HMAS WALLER               SSK 75 Commissioned 10th July 1999  

HMAS DECHAINEUX     SSK 76  Commissioned 25th February 2001  


HMAS RANKIN               SSK 78 Commissioned March 2003  

Oberon Class 1967 - 2000
HMAS OXLEY                  SSG 57 27 March 1967 - 13 February 199  

HMAS OTWAY                SSG 59 April 1968 - 1995  

HMAS OVENS                SSG 70 15 April 1969 - 1 December 1995  

HMAS ONSLOW            SSG 60  22 December 1969 - 29 March 1999  

HMAS ORION                 SSG 61 15 June 1977 - 4 October 1996  

HMAS OTAMA                 SSG 62 27 April 1978 - 15 December 2000  

O Class 1927 - 1930
HMAS Oxley                   01/04/1927 - 10/04/1930
Returned to the RN after time in the RAN reserves and was sunk in
error by another British submarine, HMS Triton on 10/09/1939 with only
two survivors.

HMAS Otway                  01/04/1927 - 10/04/1930
Returned to the RN after time in the RAN reserves

J Class 1919 - 1924

J1                                    06/11/1915
Transferred to Australia on 25th March 1919 and scrapped in February
1924. Sunk 2 kms out from Port Phillip Bay

J2                                    06/11/1915
Transferred to Australia on 25th March 1919 and scrapped in February
1924. Sunk 2 kms out from Port Phillip Bay

J3                                    04/12/1915
Transferred to Australia on 25th March 1919 and scrapped in February
1924. J3 is a breakwater on the northern tip of Swan Island

J4                                    02/02/1916
Transferred to Australia on 25th March 1919 and scrapped in January
1926. Sunk 2 kms out from Port Phillip Bay

J5                                   09/11/1915
Transferred to Australia on 25th March 1919 and scrapped in February
1924. Sunk 2 kms out from Port Phillip Bay

J7                                   21/02/1917
Transferred to Australia on completion and scrapped in November
1929. J7 is now a breakwater at Sandringham Yacht Club.

AE Class 1914 - 1915

AE1                                1914 - 14/09/1914
Lost with all hands (possibly caused by equipment failure), the exact
location unknown. AE1 is believed to be located off the Bismarck
Peninsular, Papua New Guinea. AE1 was the first allied submarine
loss of WW1

AE2                                1914 - 30/04/1915
Sunk in action against the Turkish in the Sea of Marmora.  Ironically if
AE2 had not penetrated the Dardanelles there may have been no
landing of troops at Gallipoli
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