HMAS Adelaide (FFG 01)

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Career [Australia]
HMAS Adelaide in 2000
Laid down:	29 July 1977
Launched:	21 June 1978
Commissioned:	15 November 1980
Status:	active
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 × 3 in OTO Melara; 1 × 20 mm Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS; 2 x triple 324 mm Mk 32 torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried:	2 x S-70B Seahawk
Motto:	"United For The Common Good"
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HMAS Adelaide (FFG 01) [1] is an Australian Adelaide class guided-missile frigate laid down by Todd-Pacific Shipbuilding at Seattle, Washington 29 July 1977, launched 21 June 1978 and commissioned 15 November 1980.

In 1990, along with HMAS Darwin, Adelaide deployed to the Middle East as part of Operation Damask, Australia's participation in the international coalition against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

Adelaide saw further service in the Middle East, including two tours of active service, in support of Operation Slipper in 2001 and as part of Operation Catalyst in 2004.

Adelaide was the navy ship which intercepted SIEV 4 in the event which sparked the Children overboard affair in October 2001. Adelaide is due to be decommissioned in 2007. There are plans by the New South Wales government to acquire the warship and sink it, turning it into a wreck diving site ^[1]