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    HMAS Adelaide has visits the City of Adelaide for the last time as part of her decommissioning cruise.

    HMAS Adelaide was the first of the Adelaide Class Guided Missile Frigates to be commissioned into service for the RAN, on the 15 November 1980. She was built in the United States by Seattle?s Todd Pacific Shipyard Corporation and after nearly 27 years of service Adelaide is still fully operational.

    Adelaide?s accomplished career has included a range of taskings. She was one of the first RAN warships to deploy to the Persian Gulf in 1990 as part of Operation Damask. Since then, Adelaide has deployed twice to the Middle East as part of Operation Slipper in 2002 and Operation Catalyst in 2004. Adelaide assisted in both East Timor operations in 1999 and 2006, as well as conducting the search and rescue operation for stricken yachtsman Thierry Dubois and Tony Bullimore deep in the Southern Ocean.

    Adelaide is to be decommissioned in early 2008. However, the name Adelaide will not be missing from the Australian Fleet for long, with one of the new Canberra Class amphibious ships (LHD) intended to bear the name.

    Following her decommissioning, Adelaide will be gifted to the New South Wales Government and sunk of the NSW Central Coast, near Terrigal, to become an artificial reef and a recreational dive attraction.

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    Johnsy

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    SUBJ. A FAREWELL TO ARMS.

    1. TODAY ADELAIDE II SAILS INTO THE REALMS OF MYTHS AND SEA MONSTERS,

    FOREVER TO CHART A COURSE THROUGH THE HEARTS AND MEMORIES OF ALL

    THOSE WHO HAVE SAILED IN HER. SHE PASSES IN STYLE AND GRACE, HAVING

    BOLDLY LEFT HER INDELIBLE MARK IN THE STORIED ANNALS OF THE ROYAL

    AUSTRALIAN NAVY. ADELAIDE HAPPILY RETIRES FROM THE ARENA INTO THE

    SIRENS LOVING EMBRACE, SURE FOOTED IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THE BEST IS

    YET TO COME.

    2. SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI.

    Adelaide's Guard march off.

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