HMAS Stuart (DE 48)
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| Career (Australia) |  |
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| Builder: | Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company |
| Laid down: | 20 March 1959 |
| Launched: | 8 April 1961 |
| Commissioned: | 28 June 1963 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 July 1991 |
| Homeport: | Western Australia |
| Motto: | "Semper Paratus" |
| Nickname: | "the Tartan Terror" |
| Fate: | Broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,750 tons full load |
| Length: | 112.8m |
| Beam: | 12.49m |
| Draught: | 5.18m |
| Propulsion: | 2 x English Electric steam turbines 2 shaft; 30,000shp |
| Speed: | 31.9 knots |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
1979: Mulloka sonar system SPS-55 surface-search/navigation radar |
| Armament: | 2x 4.5in Mk6 gun 2x Limbo Mk10 AS mortar re-fitted 1x quad Seacat SAM launcher 1x Ikara ASW system 2x Mark 32 torpedo tubes 1979 |
The second HMAS Stuart (F 21/DE 48) was one of six "River" class frigates/destroyer escorts built for the RAN. HMAS Stuart was laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company at Sydney in New South Wales on 20 March 1959, launched on 8 April 1961 by Mrs. J. G. Gorton, wife of the Minister for the Navy and commissioned at Sydney on 28 June 1963.
[edit] Operational history
HMAS Stuart was the first ship in the RAN to conduct trials on the Seacat short range anti-air missile system and the Australian designed and manufactured Ikara anti-submarine missile system.
From late 1968 until 1969, Stuart was designated Flagship of the RAN, while the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne underwent a major refit.[1]
In 1970, she carried out escort duties for the Royal Yacht Brittannia during the visit to Australia by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh.
In 1979, HMAS Stuart began an extensive modernisation involving the fitting of new sensor and weapons systems, such as the Australian designed and built Mulloka sonar system, SPS-55 surface-search/navigation radar, and a pair of Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes. Conditions of habitability were also improved.
In January 1984 ,Stuart became the first major RAN warship to be homeported in Western Australia.
In 1987 she returned to Sydney for a six month refit, followed by six months in the training squadron with HMAS Stalwart and HMAS Jervis Bay. In November 1988, she returned for her second homeporting in Western Australia.
HMAS Stuart, nicknamed "the Tartan Terror", paid off on 26 July 1991.
[edit] References
- ^ Trevor Weaver (1994). Q class Destroyers and Frigates of the Royal Australian Navy, pg 214
- Weaver, Trevor (1994). Q class Destroyers and Frigates of the Royal Australian Navy. Garden Island, NSW: Naval History Society of Australia. ISBN 0-9587456-3-3.
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