HMAS SWAN, (destroyer escort), was launched at Williamstown Naval Dockyard, VIC.
The Perth class, (Charles F Adams, DDG), guided missile destroyer HMAS BRISBANE, (CAPT A. A. Willis, RAN), was commissioned. BRISBANE was laid down in Defoe Shipbuilding Co, Bay City, Michigan, USA, on 15 February 1965, and launched on 5 May 1966. Mrs F. C. Chaney, (Wife of the Australian Minister for the Navy), performed the launching ceremony. BRISBANE was the last of three Charles F. Adams class destroyers built for the RAN. Her commissioning day was declared ‘Brisbane Day’ throughout the ‘Commonwealth’ of Massachusetts.