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1950s: Battle Class destroyer HMAS TOBRUK [I] in Sydney - RAN Historical.
5182. With water lapping gently over a rocky shelf in the foreground, this is a fine profile of HMAS TOBRUK [I], laid down at Cockatoo Island Dockyard on August 5, 1946, and commissioned on May 8 1950. Recapping some details, the two RAN Battle Class destroyers - the first of the post-WWII period - were 2,400 tons standard and 3,450 tons full load. Differing from their RN WWII predecessors in their main armament of two 50-ton fully automated twin 4.5 inch [114mm] turrets, and some othger rerspects, they carried twelve 40mm bofors AA - three twin and six singles- ten 21-inch [533mm] torpedo tubes in two quintuple mounts, and a 'Squid' mortar on the quarter deck.
The Battle Class were the first destroyers ever built that lacked completely in stern fire capacity, and their design was criticised in Britain for that aspect. Nonetheless they were handsome, capable ships, and ther RANB pair camer with the lkatest weapons systems when they appeared.
Photo: RAN Archives, Navy Heritage Collection image NO. 01128.
1950s: Battle Class destroyer HMAS TOBRUK [I] in Sydney - RAN Historical.
5182. With water lapping gently over a rocky shelf in the foreground, this is a fine profile of HMAS TOBRUK [I], laid down at Cockatoo Island Dockyard on August 5, 1946, and commissioned on May 8 1950. Recapping some details, the two RAN Battle Class destroyers - the first of the post-WWII period - were 2,400 tons standard and 3,450 tons full load. Differing from their RN WWII predecessors in their main armament of two 50-ton fully automated twin 4.5 inch [114mm] turrets, and some othger rerspects, they carried twelve 40mm bofors AA - three twin and six singles- ten 21-inch [533mm] torpedo tubes in two quintuple mounts, and a 'Squid' mortar on the quarter deck.
The Battle Class were the first destroyers ever built that lacked completely in stern fire capacity, and their design was criticised in Britain for that aspect. Nonetheless they were handsome, capable ships, and ther RANB pair camer with the lkatest weapons systems when they appeared.
Photo: RAN Archives, Navy Heritage Collection image NO. 01128.