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HMAS Hobart (ll)

HMAS Hobart was one of three improved Charles F Adams Class, Guided Missile Destroyers (DDG) built in the United States for the RAN. The destroyers were referred to in the RAN as Perth Class DDGs and their primary role was air defence.

  • Commissioned
    18 December 1965
  • Decommissioned
    12 May 2000
  • Fate

    Scuttled in 2002 as a dive wreck at Yankalitta Bay, S.A.

HMAS Hobart by Phil Belbin

HMAS Hobart

by Phil Belbin

HMAS Hobart by Gaye Travers

HMAS Hobart

by Gaye Travers

HMAS Hobart with the US Seventh Fleet off Vietnam, 1968 by Ray Honisett

HMAS Hobart with the US Seventh Fleet off Vietnam, 1968

by Ray Honisett

  • Additional reading on HMAS Hobart (ll)
    • HMAS Hobart (II), The Sea Power Centre (navy.gov.au)
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