HMAS Melbourne (FFG 05)

HMAS Melbourne Ships Crest

Career

RAN Ensign

Ordered:

Laid down:

Launched:

Commissioned:

Decommissioned:

Fate:

Active

Struck:

General Characteristics

Displacement:

4,100 tons

Length:

138 m

Beam:

14 m

Draught:

7.5 m

Propulsion:

2 × General Electric LM 2500 gas turbines providing 41,000 hp (490 kW)

Speed:

29 knots

Range:

4,500 miles at 20 knots

Complement:

184 + aircrew

Armament:

Mk 13 launcher for Harpoon and SM-1 missiles; 1 x 3in OTO Melara; 1 x 20mm Mk 15 Vulcan Phalanx; 2 x triple 324mm Mk 32 torpedo tubes

Aircraft:

Motto:

"Vires Acquirit Eundo"

HMAS Melbourne (FFG 05) is an Adelaide class guided missile frigate laid down by AMECON at Williamstown in Victoria on 12 July 1985, launched on 5 May 1989 and commissioned on 15 February 1992.

Melbourne has seen active service on four occasions since commissioning. Her first tour was to the Persian Gulf in 1996 followed by a deployment to East Timor in 1998 operating in support of INTERFET and United Nations forces. In 2002, Melbourne participated in the third rotation of RAN ships to the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Slipper where she enforced United Nations sanctions against Iraq. In 2003, the ship returned to Iraqi waters in support of Operation Catalyst protecting Iraqi territorial waters following Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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