Sydney Harbour, between Bradleys Head and Clark Island. 15 September 2010

Returning from a six-month deployment to the Middle East Area of Operations, She successfully responded to 14 distress calls in relation to suspected piracy events and intercepted one pirate vessel in the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor.

Pennant FFH 154 Class Anzac Class Based Sydney
Laid down 5 June 1999 Launched 17 June 2000 Commissioned 4 October 2003
Displacement 3600 tonnes Length 118 metres Beam 14.8 metres
Armament : 1 x 5 inch (127mm) Mk45 Mod 2 Automatic fire gun
Mk41 vertical launch system with the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, 2 x Mk32 Mod 5 triple mounted torpedo tube,
4 x 50 calibre (12.7mm) machine guns
Main Machinery : 1 x General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engine
2 x MTU 12V 1163 diesel engines driving two controllable pitch propellers
Speed 27 knots Company 177