POST WW2 AUSTRALIAN NAVY SUBMARINE HMAS ORION METAL WOOD ESCAPE HATCH HANDLE

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POST WW2 AUSTRALIAN NAVY SUBMARINE HMAS ORION METAL WOOD ESCAPE HATCH HANDLE

Offered is an escape hatch handle assembly, which was salvaged from the Australian submarine HMAS Orion upon decommissioning. Assembly mounted onto wood base, with brass plaque. Measures 280mm x 140mm x 370mm, about 8kg in weight. Nice piece and one of the more useful parts of a submarine!

HMAS Orion was an Oberon class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy. One of six submarines ordered by the RAN during the 1960s, Orion, named after the constellation in a break from ship-naming tradition, was built in Scotland and commissioned in 1977. Orion was one of two Oberon-class submarines designed for intelligence gathering and conducted regular patrols in Soviet, Indian and Chinese waters to gather information regarding enemy capabilities.