HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), was fired on by 15 enemy coastal batteries while attacking Vietnamese positions at True Li, Vietnam. Thirty-five enemy shells landed within 50 metres of the ...
HMAS Hobart II
Australian Naval History on 11 May 1967
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), was bracketed by 50 shells from North Vietnamese coastal batteries at Kien Giang, Vietnam. HOBART replied with 67 rounds of rapid fire, and withdrew undamaged. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 April 1967
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), and USS COLLETT, came under fire from enemy coastal batteries off Thanh Hoa, Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 April 1967
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), came under North Vietnamese battery fire when she closed the coast to engage enemy barges. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 April 1967
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 ...
Australian Naval History on 10 April 1967
The guided missile destroyer HMAS HOBART, (CAPT G. R. Griffiths, DSC, RAN), fired her 1000th round in Vietnam while supporting the US 1st Air Cavalry Division near Duc Pho. ...
Australian Naval History on 31 March 1967
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), fired the first RAN shots in the Vietnam War. The destroyer provided support fire for an attack by the US Marines 37 Battalion at Da ...
Australian Naval History on 7 March 1967
The guided missile destroyer HMAS HOBART, (CAPT G. R. Griffiths, DSC, RAN), sailed from Garden Island to join the US Seventh Fleet off Vietnam. HOBART was the first RAN ship ...
Australian Naval History on 18 December 1965
The Perth class, (Charles F Adams, DDG), guided missile destroyer HMAS HOBART, (CAPT G. R. Griffiths, DSO, RAN), was commissioned. HOBART was laid down in Defoe Shipbuilding Co, Bay City, ...