HMAS Melbourne (FFG05) - Definition and Overview

FFG-05 officer using the ship's binoculars

HMAS Melbourne (FFG-05) is an Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate laid down by AMECON at Williamstown in Victoria on 12 July 1985, launched on 5 May 1989 and commissioned on 15 February 1992.

Melbourne has seen active service on three occasions since commissioning. Her first tour was in East Timor in 1998 operating in support of INTERFET and United Nation's forces. In 2002 Melbourne particpated in the third rotation of RAN ships to the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Slipper where she enforced United Nation's sanctions gainst Iraq. In 2003 the ship returned to Iraqi waters in support of Operation Catalyst protecting Iraqi terrirotiral waters following Operation Iraqi Freedom.

See HMAS Melbourne for other ships of this name.