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HMAS Perth (D29)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 26 June 1933 |
| Launched: | 27 July 1934 |
| Commissioned: | RN as HMS Amphion 15 June 1936, RAN as HMAS Perth 29 June 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Sunk in action with Japanese destroyers and cruisers, Sunda Strait 1 March 1942 |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 6,890 tons, standard (9,130 tons, full load) |
| Length: | 530ft (p-p) 559ft 6in overall |
| Beam: | 56ft 6in |
| Draught: | 15ft 9in (mean) |
| Propulsion: | Four-shaft Parsons geared turbines (72,000 SHP) |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots |
| Range: | 7,400 miles at 13kts, 1,920 at 30.5kts |
| Complement: | 646 (35 officers 611 ratings) 681 at time of loss (includes 6 RAAF, 4 civilian) |
| Armament: | 8 x 6in mkXIII (4x2), 8 x 4in mkXVI (4x2), 8 x 21in Torpedo tubes, 3 x.5in 4 barrelled MG, 10 x .303 in MG |
| Aircraft: | one seaplane - aircraft used in WWII : Seagull V A2-4 & A2-17, Supermarine Walrus L2234, L2298 & L2319. (Seagull V A2-4 survives at RAF Museum, Hendon) |
| Motto: | Floreat (Let it flourish) |
HMAS Perth, the first to be named after the city of Perth, was a modified Leander class cruiser, laid down by HM Dockyard at Portsmouth on 26 June 1933, launched on 26 July 1934 by the Marchioness of Titchfield, completed in July 1936 and commissioned at Portsmouth on 15 June 1936 as HMS Amphion, purchased by the Australian government and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Perth at Portsmouth on 29 June 1939. Perth served in the Mediterranean where she participated in the Battle of Cape Matapan and was involved in the evacuation of Greece in April 1941. HMAS Perth, commanded by Captain H. M. L. Waller , RAN, was torpedoed by Japanese destroyers during the Battle of Sunda Strait on 1 March 1942 and sank with the loss of 350 of her crew and three civilians.
See HMAS Perth for other ships of the name.
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