HMAS Brisbane (D 41)

HMAS Brisbane in 1995
History
Australia
NamesakeCity of Brisbane
BuilderDefoe Shipbuilding Company
Laid down15 February 1965
Launched5 May 1966
Commissioned16 December 1967
Decommissioned19 October 2001
Motto"We Aim At Higher Things"
Nickname(s)
  • Steel Cat[1]
  • Fighting Forty-One[1]
Honours and
awards
FateSunk as dive wreck
BadgeShip's badge
General characteristics
Class and typePerth-class guided missile destroyer
Displacement
  • 3,370 tons standard
  • 4,551 tons full load
Length
Beam47 ft 1 in (14.35 m)
Draught15 ft 3 in (4.65 m) maximum
Propulsion2 × General Electric steam turbines, 70,000 shp (52,000 kW), 2 shafts
Speed35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement24 officers, 312 sailors
Armament

HMAS Brisbane (D 41) was one of three Perth-class guided missile destroyers to serve in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The United States-designed ship was laid down at Bay City, Michigan in 1965, launched in 1966 and commissioned into the RAN in 1967. She is named after the city of Brisbane, Queensland.

During her career, Brisbane made two deployments to the Vietnam War, was involved in the post-Cyclone Tracy disaster relief operation Navy Help Darwin, and deployed to the Persian Gulf during the first Gulf War. Brisbane was decommissioned in 2001, and was sunk as a dive wreck off the Queensland coast in 2005.

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