AUSTRALIAN NAVY
TRANSFER OF SUBMARINES. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, January 22. (Received Jan. 23, at 5.5 p.m.) An offer from the Commonwealth of Australia to transfer from the Royal Australian Navy to the Royal Navy the submarines Otway and Oxley has been accepted, and the vessels will shortly join the Mediterranean fleet, taking the place of older submarines, two of which have now been scrapped. The Otway and the Oxley were completed in 1927 and have a displacement of 1535 tons, with an armament of one 4-inch and one smaller gun and eight torpedo tubes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21242, 24 January 1931, Page 11
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