HMAS Adelaide (FFG 01)

HMAS Adelaide docked at Port Adelaide for an open day in 2007
History
Australia
Namesake	City of Adelaide
Builder	Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle
Laid down	29 July 1977
Launched	21 June 1978
Commissioned	15 November 1980
Decommissioned	19 January 2008
Motto	"United For The Common Good"
Nickname(s)	FFG-17 (US hull designation during construction)
Honours and awards	Battle honours: East Timor 1999 Persian Gulf 2001–02 plus two inherited honours
Fate	Sunk as dive wreck
General characteristics
Class and type	Adelaide-class guided missile frigate
Displacement	4,100 tons
Length	138.1 m (453.1 ft) overall
Beam	13.7 m (44.9 ft)
Draught	7.5 m (24.6 ft)
Propulsion	2 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 41,000 hp (30,574 kW), 1 shaft 2 × 650 hp (485 kW) auxiliary propulsors
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range	4,500 nmi (8,334 km; 5,179 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	184 (including 15 officers, not including aircrew)
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SPS-49 air search radar AN/SPS-55 surface search and navigation radar SPG-60 fire control radar (Mark 92 fire control system) AN/SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar
Armament	1 × Mark 13 Missile Launcher for Harpoon and Standard missiles 2 × Mark 32 torpedo tubes 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm naval gun 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Up to 6 × 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine guns 2 × M2HB .50 calibre Mini Typhoons (fitted as required)
Aircraft carried	2 × S-70B Seahawk or 1 × Seahawk and 1 × AS350B Squirrel

HMAS Adelaide (FFG 01) was the lead ship of the Adelaide class of guided missile frigates built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), based on the United States Navy's Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates. She was built in the United States and commissioned into the RAN in 1980.

During her career, Adelaide was part of Australian responses or contributions to the 1987 Fijian coups d'état, the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, the Indonesian riots of May 1998, the INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce, the War in Afghanistan, and the United States-led invasion of Iraq. In 1997, the frigate rescued two competitors in the 1996–97 Vendée Globe solo, round-the-world yacht race. In 2001, a boat carrying suspected illegal immigrants was intercepted by Adelaide; the events of this interception became the centre of the Children overboard affair.

In 2008, Adelaide was the second ship of the class to be decommissioned, in order to offset the cost of an upgrade to the other four vessels. This ship was to be sunk off Avoca Beach, New South Wales as a dive wreck on 27 March 2010, until an appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal by protest groups led to a postponement of the scuttling until additional cleanup work was completed. Despite further attempts to delay or cancel the scuttling, Adelaide was sunk off Avoca on 13 April 2011.