HMAS Brisbane (D41)
_during_PITCH_BLACK_84.jpg) HMAS Brisbane (D41) 1984 |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | destroyer |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | February 15, 1965 |
| Launch | May 5th 1966 |
| Namesake | Brisbane |
| 1. Period of service |
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| period of service |
December 16, 1967 - October 19, 2001 |
| Whereabouts | sunk |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
4,500 ts |
| length |
133.2 m |
| width |
14.3 m |
| Draft |
6.7 m |
| crew |
350 |
| drive |
Steam turbines with 70,000 shaft horsepower, two shafts |
| speed |
33 knots |
| motto |
"We Aim At Higher Things" |
The HMAS Brisbane (D41) was a Perth-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy . She served in the Australian Navy from 1967 to 2001 and was the second ship to be named after the city of Brisbane .
history
The keel-laying of the Brisbane took place on February 15, 1965 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City , Michigan , the launch took place on May 5, 1966, the commissioning with the Australian Navy on December 16, 1967.
The destroyer was used several times off the Vietnamese coast and took part in various operations in the Gulf of Tonkin . In the following years after the end of the Vietnam War , he mostly operated with US units, and Brisbane accompanied the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne several times to multinational exercises, and in the summer of 1977 to NATO exercises in the Atlantic. At the end of the eighties, the destroyer was modernized, he received, among other things, a Phalanx CIWS for close-range defense. During the Desert Shield and Desert Storm operations , Brisbane was part of the Australian contingent of the Allied forces in the Gulf region. She was used several times as the "plane guard" of the USS Midway and was the base for combat swimmers for mine defense.
On October 19, 2001, the ship was decommissioned, the bridge and a 5-inch gun were dismantled and brought to the Australian War Memorial as exhibits . The hull was sunk on July 31, 2005 off the Sunshine Coast as a diving wreck . The wreck lies almost horizontally on a sandy bottom 27 meters deep. The highest superstructures that have been preserved rise up to 3 meters below the surface. Thus, the Ex-HMAS Brisbane can be visited by both less experienced and more experienced divers .
Web links
- Pictures of Brisbane at navsource.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Diving Tips for Queensland. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .