HMAS Tobruk (D37)
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HMAS Tobruk (D-37) was a Battle-class (Anzac class in the RAN) destroyer laid down by he Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Propriety Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 5 August 1946, launched on 20 December 1947 by Mrs. W. J. F. Riordan, wife of the Minister for the Navy and commissioned at Sydney on 8 May 1950.
Tobruk was accidentally hit by a shell from her sister ship Anzac while exercising with the fleet off the east coast of Australia in September 1960. Tobruk paid off into reserve on 9 October 1960, was sold for scrap to Fujita Salvage Company Limited of Osaka in Japan on 15 February 1972 and departed Sydney under tow on 10 April 1972.
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