HMAS ANZAC

Namesake: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps

Builder: Williamstown Naval Dockyard
Laid down: 23 September 1946
Launched: 20 August 1948
Commissioned: 14 March 1951
Decommissioned: 4 October 1974
Reclassified: Training ship (April 1963)
Motto: "United We Stand"
Honours and
awards: Battle honours:
Korea 1951–53
Malaya 1956
Fate: Sold for scrap, 24 November 1975
General characteristics
Class and type: Battle class destroyer
Displacement: 2,436 tons (as destroyer)
3,450 tons (as training ship)
Length: 379 ft (116 m) overall
355 ft (108 m) between perpendiculars
Beam: 41 ft (12 m)
Draught: 21 ft 11.5 in (6.693 m)
Propulsion: 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines, 50,000 SHP, 2 shafts
Speed: 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Complement: 320 as destroyer
169 + 109 trainees as training ship
Armament: 4 x 4.5-inch (110 mm) Mark VI guns (2 twin turrets)
12 x Bofors 40 mm guns (3 twin mountings, 6 single mountings)
1 x Squid anti-submarine mortar
2 x 5-tube 21-inch (530 mm) Pentad torpedo tubes

Photo Credits: The late Allan Green Collection Vic Australia

Details: Wikipedia

Cheers and GB

Gordy