HMAS Brisbane (D 41)

HMAS Brisbane in 1995
History
Australia
Namesake	City of Brisbane
Builder	Defoe Shipbuilding Company
Laid down	15 February 1965
Launched	5 May 1966
Commissioned	16 December 1967
Decommissioned	19 October 2001
Motto	"We Aim At Higher Things"
Nickname(s)	Steel Cat[1] Fighting Forty-One[1]
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Vietnam 1969–71 Kuwait 1990–91 plus one inherited honour Awards: Meritorious Unit Citation
Fate	Sunk as dive wreck
Badge
General characteristics
Class and type	Perth-class guided missile destroyer
Displacement	3,370 tons standard 4,551 tons full load
Length	437 ft (133 m) length overall 420 ft (130 m) between perpendiculars
Beam	47 ft 1 in (14.35 m)
Draught	15 ft 3 in (4.65 m) maximum
Propulsion	2 × General Electric steam turbines, 70,000 shp (52,000 kW), 2 shafts
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range	6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	24 officers, 312 sailors
Armament	1 × Mk 13 launcher for Tartar, then Standard missiles 2 × 5"/54 calibre Mark 42 guns 2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tube sets 2 × Ikara anti-submarine missile launchers (removed 1991) 2 × Phalanx CIWS (installed 1990)

HMAS Brisbane (D 41) was one of three Perth-class guided missile destroyers to serve in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The United States-designed ship was laid down at Bay City, Michigan in 1965, launched in 1966 and commissioned into the RAN in 1967. She is named after the city of Brisbane, Queensland.

During her career, Brisbane made two deployments to the Vietnam War, was involved in the post-Cyclone Tracy disaster relief operation Navy Help Darwin, and deployed to the Persian Gulf during the first Gulf War. Brisbane was decommissioned in 2001, and was sunk as a dive wreck off the Queensland coast in 2005.