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Submarine HMS Onyx, which was adopted the town of Stockton in the 1980s Commissioned in 1967 and adopted by Stockton in the 1980s, the 2,400-ton Oberon Class submarine HMS Onyx undertook secret operations during the Falklands conflict, landing Special Forces and gathering information. The sub regularly visited the Teesside town and its crew having been given the freedom of Stockton. Despite a campaign by former Stockton mayor and mariner Jim Vaughan to moor the Onyx on permanent display on the town s riverside, the vessel was, after its decommission, sold at auction in 1991 to the Birkenhead-based Warship Preservation Trust. The trust, having gone into voluntary liquidation, was to close, and feared the collection, which includes HMS Onyx, would have to be broken up.