HalcyonDaze
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Interesting. Best guess is that while Brisbane's bridge was taken off for the memorial, they took Perth's forward Mk 42 mount. Hobart as I recall still had both of her guns.
Trip Report Ex-HMAS Brisbane - 133m long wreck in 5-30m on the Sunshine Coast
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Interesting. Best guess is that while Brisbane's bridge was taken off for the memorial, they took Perth's forward Mk 42 mount. Hobart as I recall still had both of her guns.
Built in the United States to a modified version of the Charles F. Adams design.
All that steel is now off the Australian coast, unlike the exHMAS Melbourne that was sold for scrap to Korea and I suspect came back as Hyundai cars.
All that steel is now off the Australian coast, unlike the exHMAS Melbourne that was sold for scrap to Korea and I suspect came back as Hyundai cars.
HalcyonDaze
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The US also sold Australia a fourth Charles F. Adams-class destroyer in 1993, the ex-USS Goldsborough, as a parts hulk. Aside from removing spare parts to keep the three Perth-class ships running, some equipment was taken ashore as training materials so RAN trainees wouldn't have to fly to the US to train on it. While the ship was tied up the RAN painted the number 40 on the bow to fill the gap in the number sequence between Hobart (D39) and Brisbane (D41); after it had been stripped of anything deemed useful it was sent to the breakers in India.
The former HMAS Melbourne was actually sold for scrap to the PRC in 1985; according to some reports her dismantling was not completed until 2002 as PLAN made a thorough study of the ship for their own nascent aircraft carrier program. It was probably more useful to them than the pair of half-arse ex-Soviet "heavy aviation cruisers" that they acquired a decade later and turned into tourist attractions. You're probably thinking of Melbourne's sister ship HMAS Sydney; she was sold to a South Korean scrapyard in 1975 after serving as a fast troop transport (the "Vung Tau Ferry") during Vietnam.
As a side note, while Melbourne was built at the end of WWII and the RAN had been looking to replace her since the late 1950s, one of the reasons she was decommissioned in 1982 was the British Royal Navy had decided a year earlier that their new "through-deck cruiser" HMS Invincible was surplus to requirements and offered her to the RAN cheap ($285 million AUD at the time). Then Argentina took over the Falklands and HMS Invincible and HMS Hermes were the only air cover the Royal Navy had, which caused them to withdraw the sale offer.
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Dive 3 & 4 there today, better 12-15m vis, some more thorough exploration inside.
Next trip will be at night.
Next trip will be at night.
Update on the xHMAS Brisbane after ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.
Having ran a dive charter from this area in the past, this will be a big loss of income for the two dive shops in the area.
I dived it last month .
Closed to divers for some time.
I dive it the day I joined the Navy and the day it was scuttled every year, having served on DDGs, I don't tell anyone on the boat , it's just one of the things I do to remember.
Having ran a dive charter from this area in the past, this will be a big loss of income for the two dive shops in the area.
I dived it last month .
Closed to divers for some time.
'Awe-inspiring' cyclone damage closes shipwreck off Sunshine Coast
The wreck of the HMAS Brisbane, which sits in waters off the Sunshine Coast, was damaged by recent wild weather and will be closed to divers until it can be made safe.
www.abc.net.au
I dive it the day I joined the Navy and the day it was scuttled every year, having served on DDGs, I don't tell anyone on the boat , it's just one of the things I do to remember.
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Following the farewell of TC Alfred as it slowly moved inland last week, we were able to get out to the ex-HMAS Brisbane to assess our moorings and to see how the old girl held up. We honestly weren’t expecting to see too much change...how wrong we were!
The entire front smoke stack from behind the forward gun to the mag deck, including the control room and captain’s quarters, has quite literally been picked up by a monster swell, moved 20m north, and plonked back down on the sand, completely intact! To rip this amount of reinforced steel clean off the hull of the Brissy and carry it through the water column back down to the sea floor would’ve been an unbelievable sight!
The task at hand now is to ensure the site is safe to dive on recreationally. After a meeting with QLD Parks and Wildlife and commercial divers, we are expecting 2 weeks minimum for the marine park to be closed while stage 1 works are undertaken to ensure the safety of the primary structure. Hopefully we get some calm sea conditions and the repairs occur quickly and smoothly. Once stage 1 is complete, guided dives will be permitted on the outside of the wreck.
Stage 2 will involve a full internal inspection to assess if additional repairs are required before divers can enter the wreck safely.
We are feeling super excited about this new chapter of diving the ex-HMAS Brisbane. The position of the stack on the sand has created some epic new structures to explore, and overall the wreck is looking great- all the beautiful corals and fish populations are happier than ever, and we even saw Barney the Turtle on our first inspection! Anyone that is familiar with this epic wreck dive will be completely blown away by the transformation, and new visitors are in for a unique treat!
We’ll keep you all updated with progress of the works as it unfolds. Can’t wait to be back out there!
Video 1- Manager’s first reaction to seeing the transformation (sound on
Image 1-6 - views of the forward stack’s new home on the sand, deck level between the front gun and the mag deck, and the bow looking beautiful
People should contact Dive operators that run trips out to the wreck all year, when weather permits
Rather than posting incorrect ABC new reports on here before they are the cause of revenue loss
I have personally spoken with hordes of divers now itching to get out to the modified wreck me too
and they will be going diving and going diving soon
Hordes of them!
And more hordes!
I have also spoken to a few local divers [ not hordes like you ] and we also wish to dive the Brisbane soon to see the 'modifications' done by the storm.
The weather has been awful for weeks and does not look good at the moment for any diving .
I wish the local shops well , I know the people in both shops very well over many years .
Hordes of divers, funny.
I will be talking to both shops today, any news I will post here.
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