HMS Ocelot

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HMS Ocelot (S17) was an Oberon-class diesel-electric submarine laid down by HM Dockyard at Chatham in Kent on 17 November 1960, launched on 5 May 1962 and commissioned on 31 January 1964. She joined the 3rd Flotilla based at HMNB Clyde, in Faslane. HMS Ocelot was the last submarine built for the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, although three more 'O' class submarines—Ojibwa, Onondaga and Okanagan—were built for the Royal Canadian Navy. HMS Ocelot was paid off in August 1991 as the conventional submarine fleet of the RN began to decline, making way for the nuclear fleet. She was sold in 1992 and preserved as a fully tourable museum in Chatham Historic Dockyard.

A series of photographs from the launching ceremony at Chatham follow..

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Here's a few pics of how she looks now berthed in No.3 Dry Dock at Chatham Dockyard:

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HMS Ocelot at Gosport in 1971. The unfortunate submarine next to her is HMS Artemis, which accidentally went 'glug, glug' and sank as water came in through the hatches while she was being refuelled. Someone got more than a slapped wrist for this, methinks