hmas tobruk (d37)

HMAS Tobruk (D-37) was a Battle-class destroyer laid down by he Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Propriety Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 5 August 1946, launched on 20 December 1947 by Mrs. W. J. F. Riordan, wife of the Minister for the Navy and commissioned at Sydney on 8 May 1950. Tobruk was accidentally hit by a shell from her sister ship Anzac while exercising with the fleet off the east coast of Australia in September 1960. Tobruk paid off into reserve on 9 October 1960, was sold for scrap to Fujita Salvage Company Limited of Osaka in Japan on 15 February 1972 and departed Sydney under tow on 10 April 1972. See HMAS Tobruk for other ships of this name. Tobruk Tobruk

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