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Guided missile frigate HMAS Canberra (FFG-02)

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Classification

Ship class:
Adelaide-class frigate Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Type:
Frigate

Basic information

Namesake:
City of Canberra
Operator:
Royal Australian NavyRoyal Australian Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Vigor IndustrialVigor Industrial
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Sunk:
Status:
Sunk
Fate:
Sunk as dive wreck 4 October 2009

Ship measurements

Displacement:
4,100 t
Length:
138.1 m
Beam:
13.7 m
Draft:
7.5 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
COGAG
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
Range:
4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)

Personnel

Complement:
199

Combat assets

Electronics:
  • AN/SPS-49 radar
  • Mk 92 fire control system
  • AN/SPS-55 radar
  • AN/SQS-56 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:
  • 2 * S-70B Seahawk or 1 * Seahawk and 1 * AS350B Squirrel

HMAS Canberra (FFG 02) was an Adelaide class guided missile frigate of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Based on the Oliver Hazard Perry class design, Canberra was one of four Adelaide class ships constructed in the United States of America, and one of six to serve in the RAN.

The frigate entered service in 1981. During her career, Canberra was assigned to escort the Royal Yacht Britannia during Queen Elizabeth II's visit in 1988, helped enforce the post-Gulf War United Nations' sanctions against Iraq during 1992 and 1993, was part of the Australian responses to the 1998 Indonesian riots and the 2000 Solomon Islands Civil War, and returned to the Persian Gulf in 2002 as part of the War in Afghanistan.

In 2005, Canberra became the first ship of her class to be decommissioned. The frigate was marked for conversion into a dive wreck and artificial reef off Barwon Heads, Victoria, and was scuttled on 4 October 2009.

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