HMAS Adelaide
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| Pennant | FFG 01 |
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| Class | Adelaide Class |
| Launched | 21 June 1978 |
| Commissioned | 15 November 1980 |
| Decommissioned | 19 January 2008 |
| Displacement | 4,100 tonnes4,100,000 kg 4.1e+9 g 9,038,950.2 lb 144,623,244.2 oz |
| Length | 138.1 metres13,810 cm 0.138 km 0.0858 mi 453.084 ft 5,437.008 in |
| Beam | 14.3 metres1,430 cm 0.0143 km 0.00889 mi 46.916 ft 562.992 in |
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| Speed | 30 knots15.433 m/s 55.56 km/h 0.0154 km/s 3,038.059 ft/min 50.634 ft/s |
| Company | 210 |
HMAS Adelaide (FFG-01) was a long-range escort frigate with roles including area air defence, anti-submarine warfare, surveillance, reconnaissance, and interdiction. The Ship could simultaneously counter threats from the air, surface and sub-surface.
Built in the United States, Adelaide was commissioned on 15 November 1980 and was the first of six Adelaide class guided-missile frigates to be delivered to the Royal Australian Navy. Adelaide was the second ship in the RAN to carry this name. The first was a light cruiser that served from 1922 to 1945.
Along with her five sister ships, Canberra, Sydney, Darwin, Melbourne and Newcastle, Adelaide was powered by gas turbines for it's main propulsion. Guided-missile frigates could be underway from a cold start in less than 30 minutes. In addition, two forward mounted auxiliary propulsion units provided a secondary means of propulsion and excellent manoeuvrability in confined waters.
Adelaide was equipped with a number of sensors that included long range radars for air and surface surveillance, electronic warfare and optical surveillance systems, a medium range sonar and a command and control system, that incorporated target data received by data link from other ships and aircraft.
The principal weapons installed in Adelaide were the Standard medium-range anti-aircraft missile and the Harpoon anti-shipping missile. Both missiles were launched from the Mk 13 launcher on the forecastle. A 76mm gun to counter both air and surface threats was fitted forward of the funnel. A 20mm Phalanx close-in-weapons-system, Nulka decoy and chaff systems were fitted for anti-missile defence. Adelaide had a capacity for two S-70B-2 Seahawk helicopters and was fitted with two sets of Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes to provide a counter to submarines.
Adelaide was the first guided-missile frigate to be home-ported in Western Australia . The ship participated in the 1990/91 Gulf War, peacekeeping operations in East Timor in 1999 and was deployed to the Arabian Gulf as part of the International Coalition against Terrorism in 2001 and 2004.
