Description

Offered is a bulkhead port, which was salvaged from the Australian submarine HMAS Orion upon decommissioning. Large brass mount with screw, being mounted onto wood base, with brass plaque. Jarrah wooden base. 15cm x 20cm x 8cm, about 5kg in weight. Nice piece.

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.