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HMAS ''Adelaide'' (FFG 01) was the lead ship of the ''Adelaide'' class of guided missile frigates built for the Royal Australian Navy, based on the United States Navy's ''Oliver Hazard Perry'' class frigates. She was built in the United States of America and commissioned into the RAN in 1980. During her career, ''Adelaide'' was part of Australian responses or contributions to the 1987 Fijian coups d'état, the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, the Indonesian riots of May 1998, the INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce, the War in Afghanistan, and the United States-led invasion of Iraq. In 1997, the frigate rescued two competitors in the 1996–97 Vendée Globe solo, round-the-world yacht race. In 2001, a boat carrying suspected illegal immigrants was intercepted by ''Adelaide''; the events of this interception became the centre of the Children overboard affair. In 2008, ''Adelaide'' was the second ship of the class to be decommissioned, in order to offset the cost of an upgrade to the other four vessels. This ship was to be sunk off Avoca Beach, New South Wales as a dive wreck on 27 March 2010, until an appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal by protest groups led to a postponement of the scuttling until additional cleanup work was completed. Despite further attempts to delay or cancel the scuttling, ''Adelaide'' was sunk off Avoca on 13 April 2011. ==Design and construction== (詳細はAustralian light destroyer project in 1973, the British Type 42 destroyer and the American ''Oliver Hazard Perry''-class frigate were identified as alternatives to replace the cancelled light destroyers and the ''Daring''-class destroyers.〔Jones, in Stevens, ''The Royal Australian Navy'', p. 220〕 Although the ''Oliver Hazard Perry'' class was still at the design stage, the difficulty of fitting the Type 42 with the SM-1 missile, and the success of the ''Perth''-class acquisition (a derivative of the American ''Charles F. Adams''-class destroyer) compared to equivalent British designs led the Australian government to approve the purchase of two US-built ''Oliver Hazard Perry''-class frigates (including Adelaide) in 1976.〔〔Frame, ''Pacific Partners'', pp. 102, 162〕 A third was ordered in 1977, followed by a fourth, with all four ships integrated into the USN's shipbuilding program.〔Frame, ''Pacific Partners'', p. 162〕〔MacDougall, ''Australians at war'', p. 345〕〔Hooton, ''Perking-up the Perry class''〕 A further two ships were ordered in 1980, and were constructed in Australia.〔〔 As designed, the ship had a full load displacement of 3,605 tons, a length overall of , a beam of , and a draught of .〔Moore (ed.), ''Jane's Fighting Ships 1977-78 '', p. 25〕〔 Early in the ship's career, she was modified from the ''Oliver Hazard Perry'' FLIGHT I design to FLIGHT III, requiring a lengthening of the helicopter deck for the RAST helicopter recovery system, increasing the displacement to 4,100 tons and pushing the overall length to .〔 Propulsion machinery consists of two General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, which provide a combined to the single propeller shaft.〔Sharpe (ed.), ''Jane's Fighting Ships 1998-99'', p. 26〕 Top speed is , with a range of at .〔 Two electric auxiliary propulsors are used for close manoeuvring, with a top speed of .〔 Standard ship's company is 184, including 15 officers, but excluding the flight crew for the embarked helicopters.〔 Original armament for the ship consisted of a Mark 13 missile launcher configured to fire RIM-66 Standard and RGM-84 Harpoon missiles, supplemented by an gun and a Vulcan Phalanx point-defence system.〔〔 For anti-submarine warfare, two Mark 32 torpedo tube sets are fitted; originally firing the Mark 44 torpedo, the ''Adelaide''s later carried the Mark 46 torpedoes.〔 Up to six machine guns can be carried for close-in defence, and since 2005, two M2HB .50 calibre machine guns in Mini Typhoon mounts have been installed when needed for Persian Gulf deployments.〔〔Scott, ''Enhanced small-calibre systems offer shipborne stopping power''〕 The sensor suite includes an AN/SPS-49 air search radar, AN/SPS-55 surface search and navigation radar, SPG-60 fire control radar connected to a Mark 92 fire control system, and an AN/SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar.〔 Two helicopters can be embarked: either two S-70B Seahawk or one Seahawk and one AS350B Squirrel.〔 ''Adelaide'' was laid down to the ''Perry'' class' Flight I design at Todd Pacific Shipyards at Seattle, Washington on 29 July 1977, launched on 21 June 1978 by Lady Ann Synnot (wife of Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot), and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 15 November 1980.〔〔Perryman, ''Ships Named Adelaide'', p. 2〕 During construction, she was identified with the United States Navy hull number FFG-17.〔 A total of four ''Adelaide'' class ships were constructed by Todd Pacific, with a further two built by Australian shipbuilder AMECON.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMAS Adelaide (FFG 01)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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