HMAS Adelaide (L01)
Adelaide (L01) off the coast of Queensland
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History | |
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Australia | |
Namesake | City of Adelaide |
Builder | Ferrol, Spain and BAE Systems Australia, Williamstown, Victoria |
Laid down | 18 February 2011 |
Launched | 4 July 2012 |
Commissioned | 4 December 2015 |
Homeport | Fleet Base East |
Identification |
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Motto | United for the common good |
Honours and awards | Battle honours: four inherited battle honours |
Status | Active |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Canberra-class Landing Helicopter Dock |
Displacement | 27,500 tonnes (30,300 short tons; 27,100 long tons) at full load |
Length | 230.82 m (757.3 ft) |
Beam | 32.0 m (105.0 ft) |
Draft | 7.08 m (23.2 ft) |
Propulsion | |
Speed |
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Range | 9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 4 × LLC |
Capacity |
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Troops | 1,046 |
Complement | 358 personnel; 293 RAN, 62 Australian Army, 3 RAAF |
Sensors and processing systems | Giraffe AMB radar , Saab 9LV combat system |
Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried |
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Aviation facilities | Flight deck with 13 degree ski-jump, 6 in-line deck landing spots |
HMAS Adelaide (L01) is the second of two Canberra-class landing helicopter dock (LHD) ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and is the largest naval vessel ever built for Australia. Construction of the ship started at Navantia's Spanish shipyard, with steel-cutting in February 2010. The ship was laid down in February 2011, and launched on 4 July 2012. Delivery to Australia for fitting out at BAE Systems Australia's facilities in Victoria was scheduled for 2013, but did not occur until early 2014. Despite construction delays and predictions, the ship was commissioned in December 2015.
Design
The Canberra-class design is based on the warship
The Canberra-class vessels are 230.82 metres (757.3 ft)
Each ship is fitted with a Saab
The LHDs will transport 1,046 soldiers and their equipment.
Construction
Construction of Adelaide began at
Entry into RAN service was originally planned for mid-2015, but as of July 2011, this had been pushed back to sometime in 2016.[4][11] Fitting out of the ship progressed at a faster rate than expected, which brought the predicted commissioning date back to September 2015,[17] although this did not eventuate.[why?] The ship was formally handed over to the ADF on 22 October, and was commissioned into the RAN on 4 December.[18] Although identified as "LHD02" during construction, Adelaide received the pennant number "L01" on commissioning; the number corresponding to that used by the frigate of the same name.[20][21]
Operational history
In early 2016, Adelaide undertook post-commissioning trials and other activities as the ship was worked up to full operational status.[18]
In September 2016, Adelaide took part in Exercise Kakadu 2016, based at Darwin, Northern Territory.
On 12 December 2016, Adelaide intercepted the 50m former Japanese whaling vessel Kaiyo Maru No. 8 in international waters in the
In September 2017, Adelaide sailed as part of the largest Australian task group to deploy since the early 1980s on Exercise Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2017. This was planned as a series of exercises with nations around the
On 5 January 2020, Adelaide sailed as part of Operation Bushfire Assist, assisting with the Royal Australian Navy's ongoing efforts to help evacuate people from bushfire zones that have become cut off by road and air due to conditions.[29]
On 18 January 2022, Adelaide departed from Sydney for Brisbane on its way to provide disaster relief to
In September 2022, Adelaide participated in Exercise Trident, a joint amphibious landing exercise with the Singapore Armed Forces at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area.[36] More than 1,600 personnel from both nations were involved, as well as two Republic of Singapore Navy landing platform docks (RSS Endurance and RSS Persistence), Chinook and Apache helicopters, and LHD Landing Craft (LLC).[37]
Citations
- ^ a b Brown, Spanish designs are Australia's choice for warship programmes
- ^ Borgu, Capability of First Resort? Australia's Future Amphibious Requirement, pp. 5-6
- ^ Fish, First Australian LHD takes shape
- ^ a b c d e f g Fish, Amphibious assault ships
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Royal Australian Navy, Amphibious Assault Ship (LHD)
- ^ a b Amphibious Ships, in Semaphore, p. 2
- ^ a b c Defense Industry Daily, Australia's Canberra class LHDs
- ^ a b c d Kerr, Amphibious Ambitions
- ^ Gillis, Interview. Landing Helicopter Dock Project – Canberra Class, pp. 28–9
- ^ Borgu, Capability of First Resort?, p. 11
- ^ a b c Fish, Australia awaits new LHDs for amphibious uplift
- ^ "Launch of second Amphibious Ship Landing Helicopter Dock". Royal Australian Navy. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
- ^ "Navantia botá el último megabuque en construcción". La voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 4 July 2012.
- ^ Otero, A. (11 December 2013). "Perfecto embarque de un coloso del mar". Faro de Vigo (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ "Adelaide LHD hull arrives in Melbourne". Australian Aviation. 7 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ Rahmat, Ridzwan (22 June 2015). "RAN's second Canberra-class LHD sails for first sea trials". IHS Jane's Defence Weekly. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ^ a b Durrant, Patrick (10 July 2015). "Second LHD completes initial sea trials". Australian Defence Magazine. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
- ^ a b c Staples, Natalie (4 December 2015). "HMAS Adelaide enters service". Navy Daily. Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
- ^ Rice, Deborah (30 October 2015). "Adelaide warship arrives at Garden Island in Sydney, ahead of commissioning". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
- ^ "On the way to Australia". Navy News. 55 (16). Royal Australian Navy (Directorate of Defence News): 5. 30 August 2012.
- ^ Fish, Tim (5 February 2010). "Steel cut for second Australian LHD". Jane's Navy International.
- ^ "Vessel Escorted to Hobart". Tasmania Police (Press release). 16 December 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Criminal syndicates dismantled after more arrests related to major Hobart cocaine seizure". Australian Federal Police (Press release). 18 January 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "186kgs cocaine seized, 10 men charged". Australian Border Force (Press release). 21 December 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ISSN 1322-039X.
- ^ "Seasickness foils alleged coke smugglers plan". Sky News. 21 January 2017. Archived from the original on 24 January 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- ^ "Australian Navy sends six-ship fleet on Indo-Pacific mission". navaltoday.com. 4 September 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ^ "HMAS Melbourne (II) - Part 2". Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ^ Navy, Royal Australian (5 January 2020). "HMAS Adelaide has arrived off the coast of Eden NSW to commence relief & evacuation operations. Due to the smoke in the air, visibility quickly worsened as the ship sailed from Sydney to the south coast. #AusNavy #OurCommunity #WeAreWithYou #OpBushfireAssistpic.twitter.com/CEbgCwCpBf".
- ^ "First aid shipments leave for Tonga, amid fears aid workers could bring 'tsunami of Covid'". The Guardian. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ "Covid-19 confirmed aboard HMAS Adelaide enroute to Tonga". Radio New Zealand. 25 January 2022. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "HMAS Adelaide delivers vital aid to Tonga a day after COVID-19 outbreak was detected on board". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Associated Press. 27 January 2022. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ Greene, Andrew (31 January 2022). "Australia's largest warship suffers power failure during mission to Tonga". ABC News. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ "Australia's HMAS Adelaide suffers power failure during Tongan aid mission". RNZ. 31 January 2022.
- ^ a b Greene, Andrew (17 February 2022). "Ash from Tonga volcano explosion linked to crippling power failure on HMAS Adelaide". ABC News. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ Australia Government (23 September 2022). "Australia and Singapore join forces for amphibious exercise". Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ^ Ng, Wei Kai (27 September 2022). "S'pore and Australia militaries conduct largest ever bilateral exercise simulating beach landing". The Straits Times.
References
- Journal articles and papers
- "Amphibious Ships" (PDF). Semaphore. 2007 (14). Sea Power Centre - Australia. October 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- Borgu, Aldo (2004). "Capability of First Resort? Australia's Future Amphibious Requirement". Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
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(help) - Brown, Nick (28 June 2007). "Spanish designs are Australia's choice for warship programmes". International Defence Review.
- Fish, Tim (25 July 2011). "Australia awaits new LHDs for amphibious uplift". Jane's Defence Weekly. Jane's Information Group.
- Fish, Tim (15 June 2010). "Amphibious assault ships: Striking distance". Jane's Defence Weekly.
- Fish, Tim (28 September 2009). "First Australian LHD takes shape". Jane's Navy International.
- Gillis, Kim (2007). "Interview. Landing Helicopter Dock Project - Canberra Class". DefenceToday. 6 (3): 28–29. ISSN 1447-0446.
- Kerr, Julian (22 December 2011). "Amphibious ambitions: expanding Australia's naval expectations". Jane's Navy International. Jane's Information Group.
- News articles
- "LHD launch paves the way for amphibious transformation". Department of Defence (Australia). 18 February 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- Websites and other sources
- "Australia's Canberra Class LHDs". Defense Industry Daily. Retrieved 13 November 2007.[verification needed]
- "Amphibious Assault Ship (LHD)". Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved 23 January 2013.