Canadian Oberon Class Submarines  (English, Paperback, unknown)

Chapters: Hmcs Onondaga, Hmcs Okanagan, Hmcs Ojibwa, Hms Olympus, Hms Osiris. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher\'s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Onondaga museum ship 2009. HMCS Onondaga (S73) is an Oberon-class submarine that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. Onondaga was laid down on 18 June 1964 at Chatham Dockyard, Chatham and launched on 25 September 1965. She was commissioned into the RCN on 22 June 1967 with pennant number 73. She was decommissioned by Maritime Command on 28 July 2000 as the last CF Oberon class submarine in operation. Onondaga was assigned to Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) and served her entire career in the North Atlantic. In 2001, it was planned to cut Onondaga into pieces and reassemble her inside the Canadian War Museum. This plan was cancelled before the end of the year, because of the excessive cost. In May 2005 the Halifax Chronicle-Herald announced that Maritime Command was looking to sell Onondaga for scrap metal, along with three other Canadian Oberons. MARCOM stated that the submarines were not in suitable condition to be used as museum ships, and predicted that each submarine would sell for between C$50,000 and C$60,000. Instead of being scrapped, the submarine was purchased by the Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-P?re, Rimouski in 2006, for C$4 plus tax. Onondaga was towed from Halifax to Rimouski by way of the Canso Canal in July 2008. After delays encountered bringing Onondaga ashore due to the ship rolling off of the ramp which had been built for it, she was finally secured at the end of November 2008 and modifications began to convert her into a museum ship. As of June 2009 she is now open to the public for viewing, and is described as the only publicly accessible submarine in Canada. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=579552