The guided missile destroyer HMAS HOBART, (CAPT G. R. Griffiths, DSC, RAN), fired on enemy truck parks and petrol stores at Xom Vinh and Quan Tay, Vietnam. HOBART was the first RAN ship to be committed operationally to the fighting in Vietnam, and conducted three deployments between 1967 and 1970.
Australian Naval History on 17 April 1967
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