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Ell's trip to Sydney

In front of the subs helmsman controls.

 

HMAS Onslow was decommissioned in 1999, it's still close to operational condition. Onslow was commissioned during the Cold War, a tense time that called for a submarine to watch, listen and collect information without detection. The most secretive work was tracking Soviet submarines moving into the Arabian Gulf from Vladivostok via the Coral Sea and the Great Australian Bight.

 

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Uploaded on December 7, 2011
Taken on December 3, 2011