HMAS Sydney (FFG 03)

HMAS Sydney underway in 2013
History
Australia
Namesake	City of Sydney
Builder	Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, Washington
Laid down	16 January 1980
Launched	26 September 1980
Commissioned	29 January 1983
Decommissioned	7 November 2015
Identification	MMSI number: 503105000 Callsign: VKML
Motto	"Thorough and Ready"
Nickname(s)	FFG-35 (US hull designation during construction)
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Kuwait 1991 East Timor 1999 Persian Gulf 2001–03 Iraq 2003 plus ten inherited honours Other awards: Meritorious Unit Citation
Fate	Sold for scrap
Notes	Replaced by HMAS Sydney (DDG 42)
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General characteristics
Class and type	Adelaide-class guided missile frigate
Displacement	4,100 tons
Length	138.1 m (453 ft) overall
Beam	13.7 m (45 ft)
Draught	7.5 m (25 ft)
Propulsion	2 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 41,000 horsepower (31,000 kW), 1 shaft 2 × 650-horsepower (480 kW) auxiliary propulsors
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range	4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 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 1 × 8-cell Mark 41 VLS with Evolved Sea Sparrow missiles 2 × Mark 32 torpedo tubes 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm naval gun 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Up to 6 x 12.7-millimetre (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 Sydney (FFG 03) was an Adelaide-class guided-missile frigate of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The frigate was one of six modified Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates ordered from 1977 onwards, and the third of four to be constructed in the United States of America. Laid down and launched in 1980, Sydney was named for the capital city of New South Wales, and commissioned into the RAN in 1983.

During her operational history, Sydney has been involved in Australian responses to the 1987 Fijian coups d'état and the Bougainville uprising. The frigate was deployed to the Persian Gulf on five occasions in support of United States operations during the Gulf War, War in Afghanistan, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and has completed two round-the-world voyages.

Sydney was originally expected to remain in service until 2013, but was retained in service until 2015; ceasing active deployments on 27 February and serving as a moored training ship until her decommissioning on 7 November. The frigate has been replaced in service by a Hobart-class destroyer.