HMAS Brisbane (1915)
HMAS Brisbane shortly after completion in 1916 | |
| History | |
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| Australia | |
| Name | Brisbane |
| Namesake | City of Brisbane |
| Builder | Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney |
| Laid down | 25 January 1913 |
| Launched | 30 September 1915 |
| Commissioned | 31 October 1916 |
| Completed | 12 December 1916 |
| Decommissioned | 24 September 1935 |
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| Fate | Sold for scrap in 1936 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Town class light cruiser (Chatham subtype) |
| Displacement | 5,400 long tons (5,500 t) (standard) |
| Length | 456 ft 8+3⁄8 in (139.202 m) |
| Beam | 49 ft 10 in (15.19 m) |
| Draught | 19 ft 11 in (6.07 m) (maximum) |
| Propulsion | Parsons turbines, 4 screws, 25,000 hp (19,000 kW) |
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| Range | 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
| Complement | 31 officers, 454 sailors |
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HMAS Brisbane was a Town class light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built in Sydney between 1913 and 1916 to the Chatham subtype design, Brisbane operated in the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Australian coastal waters during World War I.
Following the end of the war, the cruiser was decommissioned and recommissioned on several occasions, and was reclassified as a training ship in late 1925. In 1935, Brisbane was reactivated to transport personnel to Britain for training on the new cruiser HMAS Sydney, after which she was decommissioned and sold for breaking up as scrap.