";s:4:"text";s:4772:" All the sensitive areas of the ship are encased in 25mm thick ballistic steel and the bridge is built from the same alloy used to protect the Abrams main battle tank.Wherever soldiers will be moving around the ship passageways are extra wide with built in slides for packs to be moved between decks. - Duration: 15:10. Twitter Facebook. The second, HMAS Adelaide, will arrive early next year.It is Australian engineering and technical expertise at the BAE Systems' Williamstown shipyard that is putting the finishing touches on vessels that will alter the nation's power projection capabilities forever.Navy Captain Craig Bourke is a fierce advocate for a project that he manages on behalf of taxpayers via his job with the Defence Materiel Organisation.From the moment News Limited begins the first ever media tour of Nuship Canberra, Captain Bourke is a mine of information. This site is dedicated to all the Royal Australian Navy personnel who served in HMAS Canberra FFG-02 since the Ship's Commissioning in Seattle, Washington, USA on the 21st of March 1981 until its Decommissioning at Fleet Base West, Rockingham Western Australia on the 12th of November 2005. This Woman’s Stunning Camper Van is the Best I’ve Ever Seen! Based on the Buque de Proyección Estratégica (Strategic Projection Ship) design by Spanish shipbuilders Navantia. The latest and biggest HMAS Canberra is due to be accepted into navy service by March 2014.
This site is dedicated to all Royal Australian Navy and Australian Defence Force personnel who have served in HMAS CANBERRA. For example she has 65,000 control and monitoring points compared to just 1500 on an Anzac frigate and the vessel is fitted with more water tight doors than the entire eight-ship Anzac frigate fleet combined.The hull and vehicle, aircraft, flight and accommodation decks and machinery spaces were all built in Spain, but the four modules that contain the "brains" of the ship were constructed in Newcastle, Perth and at Williamstown where they are being installed at BAE's shipyard.This includes the bridge, operations rooms including the deployable joint force headquarters, command and control rooms, communications and combat systems. Full story; Navy Navy's amphibious force at full strength.
HMAS Canberra played a starring role in Sydney’s Australia Day celebrations as the centrepiece of the traditional Salute to Australia on S. Full story; Navy Over the side for charity . Up to 25 chefs will work around the clock to dish up a maximum of 6000 meals a day using equipment that can cook 400 chicken breasts at once as well as enough meat sauce to feed 300 people.The fourth deck down on the ship is the heavy-vehicle deck that covers 1400 square metres and can accommodate 196 shipping containers and a maximum load of 1524 tonnes. "We can do it provided we keep focused and stay on the ball and work together," Captain Bourke said.The navy's biggest ever vessel will be third Royal Australian Navy ship to carry the name HMAS Canberra in honour of the national capital.The first HMAS Canberra was a Kent Class heavy cruiser sunk by Japanese forces during the Battle of Savo Island in the dark days of WW2 in August 1942.The following year the United States Navy commissioned the only ever ship to bear the name of a foreign capital city when the heavy cruiser USS Canberra was launched.The second HMAS Canberra was an American built Adelaide Class guided missile frigate that served for 27 years from 1978 to 2005.The ship became the first FFG to be decommissioned and she was scuttled off the Victorian coast in October 2009 to become a dive wreck.The latest and biggest HMAS Canberra is due to be accepted into navy service by March 2014.