HMAS Otama

HMAS Otama

HMAS Otama (SS 72/SSG 72) was an Oberon class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built in Scotland, the submarine was commissioned into the RAN in 1978; the last of the class to enter service. Otama remained in service until late 2000, when she was decommissioned and sold to a Victorian community group, who planned to preserve the submarine as a museum ship.

However, permission to build an information centre to moor the submarine at was repeatedly denied by the local council, and Otama was listed on eBay in late 2008. Although the submarine was not sold, several expressions of interest were made, including one by a group believed to be interested in restoring Otama for use as a drug-smuggling submarine.