Perth

HMAS Perth photographed in 1965

 

Class : Charles F. Adams (Modified Perth) Class

Type: Guided Missile Destroyer

Pennant: D 38

Builder: Defoe Shipbuilding Co, Bay City, Michigan, USA

Laid Down: 21 September 1962

Launched: 26 September 1963

Launched by: Lady Beale, wife of the Australian Ambassador to USA

Commissioned: 17 July 1965

Decommissioned: 15 October 1999

Dimensions and weights

Displacement: 4,850 tonnes

Length: 133.2 meters

Beam: 14.3 meters

Performance

Speed: 30 knots

Propulsion : Machinery - 4 x Foster Wheeler boilers, 2 × General Electric steam turbines, 70,000 shp (52 MW), 2 propellers

Armament :

Missiles : •Standard surface to air missiles

•Ikara anti-submarine missiles(installed 1967, removed 1991)

Guns : 2 x 127mm (5-inch) rapid fire gun mounts

Torpedoes : 2 x Mark 32 triple torpedo tube sets

In 2001 Perth was sunk as a dive site near Albany

 

Over 7000 officers and sailors served in Perth during her period of service. She steamed over one million miles during her career she has won numerous fleet Awards for excellence.

 

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