Two submarines of the
Royal Australian Navy
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(RAN) have been named HMAS ''Oxley'', for the explorer
John Oxley
John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (1784 – 25 May 1828) was an English List of explorers, explorer and surveyor of Australia in the early period of British colonisation. He served as Surveyor General of New South Wales and is perhaps bes ...
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HMAS ''Oxley'', an ''Odin''-class submarine launched in 1926 and transferred to the Royal Navy in 1931.
* , an ''Oberon''-class submarine launched in 1965, decommissioned in 1992, and broken up for scrap.
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Royal Australian Navy ship names