HMAS Tobruk (D37)

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For other ships of this name, see HMAS Tobruk.

Career Australia
HMAS Tobruk in 1954
Class and type:	Anzac class destroyer
Builder:	Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company
Laid down:	5 August 1946
Launched:	20 December 1947
Commissioned:	8 May 1950
Decommissioned:	9 October 1960
Status:	Sold for scrap in 1972
General Characteristics
Displacement:	2,436 tons (standard), 3,450 tons (full load)
Length:	379 feet
Beam:	41 feet
Draught:	12 feet 9 inches
Propulsion:	Parsons geared turbines, 50,000 horsepower
Speed:	35 knots (designed), 31 knots (sea speed)
Complement:	290
Armament:	4 x 4.5-inch guns 12 x 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns 10 x 21-inch torpedo tubes Squid triple-barrelled depth charge mortar
Motto:	"Faithful and Strong"
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HMAS Tobruk (D37) was a Battle-class (Anzac class in the RAN) destroyer laid down by the 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 completed two deployments to Korean waters during the Korean War in 1951-52 and 1953. Tobruk was accidentally hit by a shell from 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.