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a 25 after four days during which brisbane and uss rowan completed a combined 189 fire missions the australian ship was ordered north to i corps to relieve the american cruiser uss saint paul 25 here the australian ship provided support for 3rd battalion 3rd marines during operation virginia ridge 25 brisbane returned to the ii corps area on 24 june but only remained in the area for four days on 29 june the ship was relieved by uss james e kyes and sailed to singapore for maintenance and refit 25 26 en route to singapore the destroyer encountered the merchant vessel mv sincere which was on fire 26 after unsuccessfully attempting to extinguish the fire brisbane evacuated sincere s crew and remained in the area until the salvage vessel salvana arrived to take the stricken vessel in tow 26 brisbane returned to operations in ii corps on 15 july 27 on 22 july near the end of a shore bombardment operation a premature explosion occurred in the barrel of the forward gun turret casualties were limited to one sailor with a fractured wrist but the turret was unusable 26 28 on the ship s return to subic on 3 august the damaged turret was removed but as the replacement turret would not arrive until september brisbane would complete the deployment with only a single gun turret 29 after the completion of maintenance brisbane returned to duty on 23 august but instead of gunline duties was assigned as the head of the escort screen for the aircraft carrier uss oriskany 29 the ships were deployed to yankee station with brisbane and uss perkins plus other destroyers on occasion performing escort and plane guard duties 29 on 12 september oriskany and perkins departed and were replaced by uss constellation and uss floyd b parks respectively 29 on 14 september brisbane sailed to subic for maintenance and fitting of the replacement turret then departed on 1 october for sydney having been relieved by the daring class destroyer hmas vendetta two days earlier 2 26 30 arriving on 13 october brisbane was almost immediately docked for a major refit which lasted until 15 july 1970 2 brisbane s tour was considered quieter than those experienced previously by australian ships 31 this combined with the damage to the forward gun turret and other defects meant that the destroyer only fired 7 891 shells during the six month deployment 31 two officers from the ship were mentioned in despatches while other personnel awards included a british empire medal and 25 naval board commendations 31 second deployment edit on 29 march 1971 brisbane relieved perth of vietnam duties 32 the ship was assigned to military region 3 for gunfire support duties and arrived on 5 april 32 shortly after the destroyer was moved south to military region 4 32 she returned to military region 3 on 15 april 32 the first period on the gunline during that time concluded on 20 april during which gunfire support operations had occurred on only 11 of the 16 days 32 the destroyer returned to the gunline on 15 may with brisbane s commanding officer tasked as the overall commander of gunfire operations the only time the position was held by a ran officer 33 brisbane was assigned to operate near the demilitarized zone 33 the ship was relieved on 31 may and sailed to danang 33 the destroyer was then assigned to escort the carrier uss kitty hawk 34 during 3 and 4 may brisbane was detached to provide cover for the repatriation of prisoners of war to north vietnam 34 the operation did not go ahead as only 13 of the 570 prisoners wanted to return to north vietnam and the north vietnamese government refused to accept them 34 brisbane returned to carrier escort duties where she remained until sailing to hong kong for maintenance on 12 june 34 on 24 june brisbane was assigned back to gunline duties in military region 3 34 activity was minimal and the ship was redeployed to military region 4 on 26 june 34 foul weather prevented gunfire support operations until 30 june but the rate of activity increased with 60 fire missions completed by the end of the three week period 34 in mid july after a short stint back in region 3 brisbane sailed to subic for maintenance and leave 35 on 15 august the destroyer commenced gunfire support operations off the demilitarized zone 35 a spike in activity had resulted in the deployment of two gunfire support ships with brisbane and uss berkeley rotating between being the active vessel and being on 15 minutes standby to provide assistance 35 on 21 august berkeley was relieved by uss shelton 35 of the 7 231 shells fired during the second deployment 2 127 were fired from 15 august onwards which caused a problem as the rate of fire would cause the gun barrels to come up for replacing a week before the destroyer was due to rotate off the gunline 36 the amount of wear had yet to compromise accuracy and the destroyer was instructed to continue gunfire missions while the cruiser uss oklahoma city and the destroyer uss rogers were deployed to the gunline in support of brisbane the australian destroyer only firing if targets were out of the other ships range or they were otherwise unavailable 36 brisbane s second vietnam deployment concluded on 5 september 37 during 1971 the australian government decided to withdraw all forces from vietnam by the end of the year brisbane was the last ship to make a combat deployment to vietnam and was not replaced when the deployment ended 38 brisbane received the first of two battle honours vietnam 1969 71 for her vietnam service 39 40 personnel awards for the deployment included 24 naval board commendations two personnel mentioned in despatches and the appointment of the ship s commanding officer as a commander of the order of the british empire 37 1970s and 1980s edit on 11 march 1974 brisbane was docked for a major refit 2 this concluded on 3 october but the destroyer remained in sydney for the rest of the year 2 during the night of 24 25 december 1974 cyclone tracy destroyed the city of darwin the destroyer s personnel were recalled from leave and she left early on 26 december in the company of hmas melbourne which was loaded with relief supplies 2 41 42 brisbane sped ahead and arrived on 31 december setting up communications between the relief force and canberra 2 the destroyer s participation on operation navy help darwin the ran s largest disaster relief operation was the longest of any ran vessel the first to arrive and the last to depart on 31 january 1975 2 43 in addition to facilitating communications brisbane s personnel were responsible for clearing sites for helicopters and headquarters salvaging boats and equipment repairs of infrastructure and installation of power generators on average 160 of the ship s company went ashore each day 2 brisbane at port adelaide in 1981 on 16 july 1975 brisbane sailed for a deployment to the far east strategic reserve 2 this concluded on 5 november with the destroyer returning to sydney and docking for maintenance 2 in early 1977 brisbane participated in the rimpac multinational exercise 2 in april 1977 brisbane and hmnzs canterbury were assigned to escort melbourne during a five month return trip to the united kingdom for the silver jubilee naval review 44 on 9 may one of the carrier s sea king helicopters was forced to ditch in the indian ocean brisbane successfully recovered the aircrew 45 the ships participated in the naval review at spithead on 28 june and brisbane returned to sydney on 4 october entering dock for refit eight days later 1 this maintenance period lasted until may 1979 and saw the ship s propulsion system converted from fuel oil to diesel updates to the combat system and installation of an an sps 40 c radar 1 apart from a visit to new zealand brisbane spent the rest of 1979 in australian waters 1 brisbane underway in 1984 during the early 1980s the destroyer participated in rimpac exercises and made patrols of the indian ocean 1 from 16 august 1982 to 5 august 1983 brisbane underwent refit after which the destroyer remained docked alongside at garden island until march 1984 1 another refit period occurred between september 1985 to october 1987 1 in early 1988 brisbane visited melbourne for the moomba festal then sailed to her namesake city in august to participate in a shopwindow exercise with ships of the royal new zealand navy 1 in october the destroyer was deployed to south east asia for three months returning to darwin on 8 january 1989 1 during june and july the ship made visits to ports in new zealand vanuatu and the solomon islands 1 brisbane attended rimpac during april and may 1990 then returned to australia to prepare for deployment to the persian gulf as part of operation damask 1 brisbane background cruising alongside the us navy destroyer john s mccain in 2001 operation damask edit brisbane arrived in the gulf on 6 december 1990 to serve as part of the naval blockade 1 she was attached to the united states navy battle group from 17 january to 28 february 1991 1 in late march the destroyer sailed home via singapore 1 brisbane was awarded the meritorious unit citation by the australian government for her actions during operation damask 46 brisbane also earned a second battle honour kuwait 1990 91 39 40 1990s and 2000s edit during late 1992 brisbane was operating in south east asia 1 the ship spent most of 1993 exercising along australia s east coast then docked for a refit lasting from august 1993 until may 1994 1 the destroyer was deployed to south east asia for exercises flag showing and port visits on four occasions between 1994 and 1996 then again in late 1998 1 during august 1999 brisbane participated in exercise kakadu 47 during this a fire broke out in the ship s forward gun turret which was quickly extinguished 1 in march 2000 brisbane was one of three ran ships to participate in a royal new zealand navy fleet concentration period 48 decommissioning and fate edit brisbane s bridge and gun turret outside the australian war memorial brisbane paid off on 19 october 2001 49 among the initial ideas for the ship s disposal was a proposal to donate the destroyer to the australian national maritime museum as a replacement for the daring class destroyer hmas vampire 50 brisbane was eventually marked for scuttling as a dive wreck off the coast of queensland 51 her bridge and one of her 5 inch 127 mm guns were removed and preserved at the australian war memorial in canberra which were incorporated into the post 1945 galleries which opened in 2007 51 the ship s air search radar was donated to the royal thai navy in 2002 to help the thais maintain their naval capabilities 52 brisbane was sunk approximately 2 8 nautical miles 5 2 km 3 2 mi off the coast of mudjimba sunshine coast queensland on 31 july 2005 in 27 metres 89 ft of water 53 brisbane was filled with 200 to 250 tonnes 200 to 250 long tons 220 to 280 short tons of concrete and 38 small charges were detonated to breach the hull 54 brisbane sank in two minutes and ten seconds coming to rest with the keel embedded a metre into the seabed and facing the ocean currents and the uppermost part of the ship 3 metres 9 8 ft below sea level 53 54 55 the wreck site has been colonised by sponges soft corals and hard corals while over 200 different species of fish have been sighted in the area 55 a 2009 study of the value of protected areas estimated that the wreck had contributed a 18 million to the sunshine coast economy 56 in july 2010 the queensland state government was forced to step up patrols of the wreck site because people were illegally using the dive exclusion zone as a fishing site 57 as part of celebrations for the tenth anniversary of brisbane s scuttling 92 7 mix fm conducted the world s first live underwater radio broadcast from the wreck on 31 july 2015 58 references edit citations edit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 cassells the destroyers p 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 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