![]() HMAS Canberra in 2021
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Namesake | City of Canberra |
Builder | Navantia, Ferrol, Spain and BAE Systems Australia, Williamstown, Victoria |
Laid down | 23 September 2009 |
Launched | 17 February 2011 |
Commissioned | 28 November 2014 |
Homeport | Fleet Base East |
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Motto | For Queen and Country |
Honours and awards | Battle honours: five inherited battle honours |
Status | Active |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Canberra-class Landing Helicopter Dock |
Displacement | 27,500 tonnes (30,300 short tons; 27,100 long tons) at full load |
Length | 230.82 m (757.3 ft) |
Beam | 32.0 m (105.0 ft) |
Draft | 7.08 m (23.2 ft) |
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Speed |
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Range | 9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Endurance | 45+ days endurance |
Boats & landing craft carried | 4 × LLC |
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Troops | 1,046 |
Complement | 358 personnel; 293 RAN, 62 Australian Army, 3 RAAF |
Sensors and processing systems | Giraffe AMB radar, Saab 9LV combat system |
Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried |
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Aviation facilities | Flight deck with 13 degree ski-jump, 6 in-line deck landing spots |
HMAS Canberra (L02) is the first ship of the Canberra-class landing helicopter dock in service with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and is the second largest in the Navy, succeeded by its sister ship HMAS Adelaide (L01). Construction of the ship started in Spain in 2008, with the hull launched by Navantia in 2011. The hull was then transported to Australia in late 2012 for completion by BAE Systems Australia. Canberra was commissioned on 28 November 2014.