HMAS Brisbane – Australian Guided Missile Destroyer

Description

Title: HMAS Brisbane – Australian Guided Missile Destroyer

Author:

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 1965

ISBN: N/A

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 12 pages

Comments: A contemporary booklet put out about HMAS Brisbane soon after she joined the Royal Australian Navy.

HMAS Brisbane was the third and last American built guided missile destroyer acquired by Australia in the mid 1960’s. The warship has the unique distinction of being the only Australian destroyer to have been deployed on active service to two major conflicts during the second half of the twentieth century.  She was assigned for active serice in the Vietnam War in 1969 and again in 1971. Twenty years later Brisbane was the only Australian destroyer sent to the Persian Gulf during the 1990/1991 Gulf Crisis and Gulf War.