Media Release

The first of the Royal Australian Navy's new generation submarines, HMAS COLLINS, will undergo a main battery exchange at the Australian Submarine Corporation site in Adelaide from this week.

The COLLINS is scheduled to dock today for the battery change and a number of other activities over the next 15 weeks.

The submarine will then undergo abbreviated maintenance for approximately two weeks in Western Australia before re-entering service. The scheduled main battery change will ensure the availability of three RAN submarines throughout 2000.

Issued by the Defence Public Affairs Organisation, Department of Defence, Canberra, ACT, 2600

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