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HMAS Sydney

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Nickname(s): "Stormy Petrel"; "Grey Gladiator";
Motto"I Take But I Surrender"
Aircraft carried Supermarine Walrus
Commissioned24 September 1935
Installed power72,000 shaft horsepower (54,000 kW)
FateSunk in battle, 19 November 1941
LaunchedSeptember 26, 1980
Ship builder Vigor Shipyards
Todd Pacific Shipyards
Construction startedJanuary 16, 1980
Draught7.5 m
Beam14 m
Commiss29 January 1983
Decommiss7 November 2015
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID2082468
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About HMAS Sydney


HMAS Sydney (FFG 03) was an Adelaide-class guided-missile frigate of the Royal Australian Navy. The frigate was one of six modified Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates ordered from 1977 onwards, and the third of four to be constructed in the United States of America.

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