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Did you know... that the Royal Navy's 4th Submarine Squadron operated from Sydney to train Australian personnel in anti-submarine warfare?
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... that the Royal Navy's 4th Submarine Squadron (
HMS Tacticianpictured) operated from Sydney to train Australian personnel in anti-submarine warfare? Source: "Royal Navy submarines had an important Commonwealth ASW training role ... as nuclear submarines entered service the Royal Navy sought to shed this conventional role by encouraging Australian and Canada to build up their own submarine forces. HMS Tabard is shown on 4 September 1969 while serving with the 4th Submarine Squadron based at Sydney" from: Friedman, Norman (30 September 2020).
British Submarines in the Cold War Era. Seaforth Publishing. p. 28.
ISBN978-1-5267-7123-0.
ALT1: ... that vessels of the Royal Navy's 4th Submarine Squadron were refitted at
Cockatoo Island Dockyard to give Australian personnel experience ahead of their acquisition of
Oberon-class submarines? Source: "to provide experience in the refit of submarines for future support of a RAN squadron, the Royal Navy agreed that the submarines of the 4th Submarine Squadron should be refitted in Sydney at Cockatoo Dockyard." from: Jeremy, John (2005).
Cockatoo Island: Sydney's Historic Dockyard. UNSW Press. p. 146.
ISBN978-0-86840-817-0. and "The rebirth of the Australian Submarine Service followed the decision of the Naval Board, in 1963, to order four of the highly successful British “Oberon” class vessels for the RAN." from:
"The RAN Oberon Class - Submarines in Australia". Submarine Institute of Australia.
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Dumelow (
talk). Self-nominated at 09:51, 31 December 2021 (UTC).reply
Review follows: Article was new enough at time of nomination, and is long enough. It is neutral, sufficiently cited, and does not have any issues with copyright violations. The image is freely licensed (public domain), is used in the article, works well at 100px, and has an appropriate caption. QPQ has been done, and both hooks are cited. My only concern is that they may not be particularly interesting to a general audience. I suggest mentioning that the squadron served for 20 years, which is something I found interesting when reading the article. That could be incorporated into ALT0. It's not the end of the world if the existing hooks are used, however, so I'm going to approve this.
Trainsandotherthings (
talk) 16:32, 9 January 2022 (UTC)reply