HMAS Waller (SSG 75)

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Career (Australia)
HMAS Waller in Darwin during Exercise Kakadu VI 2003
Ordered:	?
Laid down:	7 February 1992
Launched:	14 March 1997
Commissioned:	10 July 1999
Status:	Active in service
Homeport:	Fleet Base West
General Characteristics
Displacement:	Surfaced: 3,051 tonnes Submerged: 3,353 tonnes
Length:	77.8 metres
Beam:	7.8 metres
Draught:	6.8 metres
Propulsion:	1 × Jeumont Schneider main motor 7,050 hp (5.25 MW) 3 × Hedemora/Garden Island Type V18B/14 diesels 6,000 hp (4.42 MW) 3 × Jeaumont Schneider generators 5,630 hp (4.2 MW) 1 × shaft and a skew back propeller 1 × Mactaggart Scott dm 43006 hydraulic motor for emergency propulsion
Speed:	Surfaced: 10+ knots (18.5 km/h) Submerged: 20+ knots (37 km/h)
Range:	11,500 miles (at 10 knots surfaced) 9000 miles (at 10 knots snorting) 400 miles (at 4 knots dived)
Complement:	45 (8 Officers)
Sensors and processing systems:	Thales underwater systems scylla bow sonar Thales Underwater Systems GEC-Marconi Kariwara, Thomson Marconi Narama towed array or Allied Signal TB 23 Kelvin Hughes I-band navigation radar Thales optronics CK043 search and CH093 attack periscopes Anechoic tiles fitted
Electronic warfare and decoys:	Edo ES-5600 ESM, Argo AR-740 Strachan and Henshaw SSDE
Armament:	Boeing/Rockwell integrated system McDonnell Douglas UGM-84 Harpoon 6 × 21 in (533 mm) tubes for sub harpoon and Gould Mark 48 torpedo - total of 22 carried 44 mines in lieu of torpedoes Fitted for but not with Land Attack Cruise missiles with combat system AN/BYG 1 To be fitted : US Mk 48 ADCAP Combat System AN/BYG 1 based on Raytheon's CCS Mk 2
Motto:	Tenacity
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HMAS Waller (SSG 75), is a Collins class submarine laid down by the Australian Submarine Corporation at Osborne in South Australia on 7 February 1992, launched on 14 March 1997 and commissioned on 10 July 1999.

1 Name
2 Notable Achievements
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[edit] Name

The submarine is named after Captain Hector Waller (1900 - 1942), DSO and Bar who, in 1942, was commander of the cruiser HMAS Perth that was part of a combined Allied force when it was ambushed by the Japanese. All except Perth and USS Houston were sunk.

Later, the two ships were intercepted by a Japanese invasion fleet escorted by two cruisers and 12 destroyers. Enormous damage was inflicted on the Japanese fleet. Waller ordered Perth be abandoned as the Japanese closed in. Perth was sunk with her captain, but not before he had fired two torpedo tubes at the convoy. Houston was sunk shortly afterwards.

[edit] Notable Achievements

During RIMPAC 2000, HMAS Waller successfully "sank" two USN Los Angeles class fast attack submarines, before getting within torpedo range of the USS Abraham Lincoln Nimitz class aircraft carrier, undetected.

During Exercise Tandem Thrust in 2001, HMAS Waller "sank" two USN amphibious assault ships in waters between 75 metres (200 feet) to 105 meters (350 feet) deep, barely more than the length of the submarine itself.