HMAS Tobruk
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HMAS
Tobruk was a Round Table class landing ship named after
the battles at Tobruk in North Africa in 1941. She was
laid down in February 1979 at Carrignton Slipways in
Tomago for the Australian Navy, and was launched in March
1980. She was commissioned in the Australian Navy the year
after, and participated in 26 different operations during
her career. The most famous are the operations in Fiji in
1987, Somalia in the early 1990's and the riots on Solomon
Islands in 2001. She was stricken from the Navy lists in
July 2015, and three years later rigged down and prepared
as an artificial reef and dive attraction. She was
scuttled 29. June 2018 between Hervey Bay and Bundaberg,
and landed on her starboard side. The wreck rest today on
a depth of 12 to 29 meter.
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 Picture: HMAS Tobruk in 1978 Courtesy of US Defense: DN-SC-92-05678, Public domain Last updated: March 2021 |
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