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HMAS Tobruk in 1954
HMAS Tobruk in 1954

HMAS Tobruk (D-37) was a Battle-class destroyer built by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company at Sydney and commissioned in May 1950. Tobruk completed two deployments to Korean waters during the Korean War in 19515–2 and 1953. Tobruk was accidentally hit by a shell from her sister ship Anzac while exercising with the fleet off the east coast of Australia in September 1960 and paid off into reserve on 9 October 1960.