HMAS Tobruk
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HMAS
Tobruk,named after the battles at Tobruk in 1941, was
built in Tomago and launched in March 1980. She was put in
service the year after and participated in 26 operations
during her career. Most known are operations on Fiji in
1987,Somalia in the early 1990s and at the riots on
Solomon Islands in 2001. She was taken out of service in
2015, and three years later scuttled as an artificial
reef. 29.June 2018 she disappeared in the deep outside
Hersey Bay. The wreck rest on her starboard side on a
depth of 11 to 18 meter.
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 Picture: HMAS Tobruk in 1978 US Defense,DN-SC-92-05678 Public domain  Last updated: June 2019 |
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