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HMAS Anzac New Generation Frigate Booklet

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Royal Australian Navy

c. 1996

Overview

A4 booklet showing HMAS Anzac at sea on the cover. The booklet provides the background to the ships that have carried the name Anzac:
Anzac I, Destroyer Leader
Anzac II, Destroyer
Anzac III Frigate
Photos of each ship at sea are included. On the back cover is a table with technical details of the 3 ships: length, beam, draught, displacement, complement, machinery, speed, range and armament. The ship’s crest and motto (“United We Stand”) appear at the top of the table.

Historical information

Three ships have borne the name Anzac. The first was a Royal Navy Marksman Class Destroyer Leader commissioned on 24 April 1917, based at Scapa Flow before being transferred to the Royal Australian Navy and re-commissioned on 27 January 1920. The ship was decommissioned on 20nd August 1931 AND sold for scrap in August 1935. The hulk was scuttled in the Tasman Sea off Port Jackson on 7 May 1936.
The second HMAS Anzac (059) was the first major warship built in Australia after the Second World War and was commissioned on 14 March 1951. She was decommissioned in 1974 and sold to be broken up in 1975 by the Hifirm Corporation of Hong Kong.
HMAS Anzac III (FFH 150) was built in Williamstown (Victoria), commissioned on 18 May 1996 and was the lead ship of the ten frigates built for the Royal Australian Navy. HMAS Anzac III was decommissioned on 18 May 2024 at HMAS Stirling naval base in Western Australia.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-1996.6.10

Item type

Booklets

Themes

Defence > Navy

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

210 mm

Height or length

297 mm

Weight

19 g

Inscriptions and markings

HMAS ANZAC / New Generation Frigate

Contextual Information

HMAS Anzac III visited Albany (Western Australia) on a numerous occasions, including taking part in the 2014 commemoration of the convoys leaving Albany (Western Australia) in the First World War.

Keywords

HMAS ANZAC

Royal Australian Navy

Albany

Place made

Australia

Year

c. 1996

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