WORLD OF WARSHIPS HMAS HOBART DDG 39 ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY

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HMAS Hobart was one of three improved Charles F Adams class guided missile destroyers (DDG) built in the United States for the RAN. The destroyers were referred to in the RAN as Perth class DDGs and their primary role was air defence. Hobart was the second ship of the class and was constructed by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan, USA. She was launched on 9 January 1964 by Mrs DO Hay, wife of the then Australian Ambassador to the United Nations.

On 18 December 1965 Hobart commissioned under the command of Captain GR Griffiths, DSC, RAN at the Boston Navy Yard.

HOBART WAS COMMISSIONED 18 DEC 1965 AND DECOMMISSIONED 12 MAY 2000.

Missiles
Single Tartar surface-to-air missile launcher
Standard surface-to-air missile launcher (later)
Ikara anti-submarine missiles with two single launchers (removed 1991)
2 20mm Mk 15 vulcan Phalanx Close-In Weapons System CIWS (later)
Guns 2 5-inch (54 calibre/127mm) single mount rapid fire guns
Torpedoes 2 324mm Mk 32 anti-submarine torpedoes (later)