HMS Ocelot (S17)

HMS Ocelot (S17) was a diesel-electric patrol submarine of the Royal Navy, one of the Oberon class that followed on from the Porpoise class with the same dimensions and outward design but updated equipment and a higher grade of steel in the pressure hull. She was laid down at Chatham Dockyard on 17 November 1960, launched on 5 May 1962 and commissioned on 31 January 1964, and she was the last submarine built for the Royal Navy at Chatham, although three more Oberons were later built there for the Royal Canadian Navy. After service with the 3rd Submarine Squadron at Faslane, where she took part in clandestine missions in the 1960s and attended the 1977 Silver Jubilee Fleet Review, she was paid off in August 1991 as the conventional submarine fleet gave way to nuclear boats. She returned to Chatham in 1992 and is preserved there as a tourable museum ship at Chatham Historic Dockyard, within sight of the slip on which she was built.