![]() Adelaide (L01) off the coast of Queensland
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Namesake | City of Adelaide |
Builder | Navantia, 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 |
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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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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) |
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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 |
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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.
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