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Hmas Stuart (F-21/de-48)The second HMAS ''Stuart (F-21/DE-48) was one of six Type 12/River class frigates/destroyer escorts built for the RAN. HMAS Stuart'' was laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company at Sydney in New South Wales on 20 March 1959, launched on 8 April 1961 by Mrs. J. G. Gorton, wife of the Minister for the Navy and commissioned at Sydney on 28 June 1963. HMAS Stuart was the first ship in the RAN to conduct trials on the Seacat short range anti-air missile system and the Australian designed and manufactured Ikara anti-submarine missile system. In 1979, HMAS Stuart began an extensive modernisation involving the fitting of new sensor and weapons systems, such as the Australian designed and built Mulloka sonar system, SPS-55 surface-search/navigation radar, and a pair of Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes. HMAS Stuart, nicknamed "the Tartan Terror", paid off on 26 July 1991. Stuart
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