HMAS Tobruk (D37)
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For other ships of this name, see HMAS Tobruk.
.jpg/300px-HMAS_Tobruk_(AWM_301573).jpg) HMAS Tobruk in 1954 |
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| Career (Australia) |  |
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| Builder: | Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company |
| Laid down: | 5 August 1946 |
| Launched: | 20 December 1947 |
| Commissioned: | 8 May 1950 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 October 1960 |
| Motto: | "Faithful and Strong" |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap in 1972 |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Anzac class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,436 tons (standard), 3,450 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 379 ft (116 m) |
| Beam: | 41 ft (12 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | Parsons geared turbines, 50,000 horsepower |
| Speed: | 35 knots (designed), 31 knots (sea speed) |
| Complement: | 290 |
| Armament: | 4 x 4.5-inch guns 12 x 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes Squid triple-barrelled depth charge mortar |
HMAS Tobruk (D37) was a Battle-class (Anzac class in the RAN) destroyer laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Propriety Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 5 August 1946, launched on 20 December 1947 by Mrs. W. J. F. Riordan, wife of the Minister for the Navy and commissioned at Sydney on 8 May 1950.
Tobruk completed two deployments to Korean waters during the Korean War in 1951-52 and 1953. Tobruk was accidentally hit by a shell from sister ship Anzac while exercising with the fleet off the east coast of Australia in September 1960. Tobruk paid off into reserve on 9 October 1960, was sold for scrap to Fujita Salvage Company Limited of Osaka in Japan on 15 February 1972 and departed Sydney under tow on 10 April 1972.
[edit] References
- Sea Power Centre - Australia HMAS Tobruk (I)
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