HMAS Onslow
HMAS Onslow is one of six Oberon-class submarines, previously operated by the Royal Australian Navy. The submarine was named after the town of Onslow, Western Australia, and Sir Alexander Onslow, with the boat's motto and badge derived from Onslow's family heritage.Photo: Saberwyn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: 1968 Oberon-class submarine
- Also known as: “Onslow”, “SS 60”, “SS60”, “SSG 60”, and “SSG60”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Darling Harbour and HMAS Vampire.
Darling Harbour
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
Darling Harbour is a leisure and entertainment precinct, in central Sydney. It extends to Pyrmont, Ultimo and the business district of Barangaroo, and contains The Star and Pyrmont Bay, including Harris St.
HMAS Vampire
Photo: Saberwyn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
HMAS Vampire was the third of three Australian-built Daring-class destroyers serving in the Royal Australian Navy. One of the first all-welded ships built in Australia, she was constructed at Cockatoo Island Dockyard between 1952 and 1959, and was commissioned into the RAN a day after completion.
National Maritime Museum
Museum
Photo: Saberwyn, Public domain.
The Australian National Maritime Museum is a federally operated maritime museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney. After considering the idea of establishing a maritime museum, the federal government announced that a national maritime museum would be constructed at Darling Harbour, tied into the New South Wales state government's redevelopment of the area for the Australian bicentenary in 1988.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pyrmont and City Centre.
Pyrmont
Suburb
Photo: Adam.J.W.C., CC BY 3.0.
Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney.
City Centre
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
The Sydney City Centre was where Governor Arthur Phillip first raised the British flag on Australian soil in January 1788, the earliest site of European settlement in Australia.
The Hungry Mile
Neighborhood
The Hungry Mile is the name harbourside workers gave to the docklands area of Darling Harbour East, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in the Great Depression.
HMAS Onslow
- Categories: attack submarine, museum ship, preserved watercraft, ship, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.86898° or 33° 52′ 8″ southLongitude
151.19964° or 151° 11′ 59″ eastInception
1968Open location code
4RRH45JX+CVOpenStreetMap ID
way 166230547OpenStreetMap feature
building=shipOpenStreetMap feature
historic=shipOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q5630499
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Satellite Map
Discover HMAS Onslow from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From French to Persian—“HMAS Onslow” goes by many names.
- French: “HMAS Onslow”
- Irish: “HMAS Onslow”
- Japanese: “オンズロー (潜水艦)”
- Japanese: “オンズロウ”
- Persian: “اچامایاس آنزلو”
- “HMAS Onslow”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lifeboat and HMAS Advance.
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