HMAS Brisbane (D 41)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMAS Brisbane.
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.
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HMAS Brisbane in 1995 | |
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Namesake | City of Brisbane |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company |
Laid down | 15 February 1965 |
Launched | 5 May 1966 |
Commissioned | 16 December 1967 |
Decommissioned | 19 October 2001 |
Motto | "We Aim At Higher Things" |
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Fate | Sunk as dive wreck |
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Class and type | Perth-class guided missile destroyer |
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Beam | 47 ft 1 in (14.35 m) |
Draught | 15 ft 3 in (4.65 m) maximum |
Propulsion | 2 × General Electric steam turbines, 70,000 shp (52,000 kW), 2 shafts |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 24 officers, 312 sailors |
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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.