Parramatta
Mar. 12th, 2011 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithHMAS Parramatta, at the Wooden Boat Festival. I don't have a vertical photo to use but that isn't too wide?
The website is being screwy on me, so I'll type up a bit from the leaflet we were given.
"HMAS Parramatta is the fifth of eight ANZAC class frigates built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) by Tenix Defence Systems, Williamstown, Victoria.
"HMAS Parramatta is a long-range frigate capable of air defence, surface and undersea warfare, surveillance, reconnaissance and interdiction. HMAS Parramatta is fitted with an advanced package of air and surface surveillance radar, omn-directional hull mounted sonar and electronic support systems which interface with the state-of-the-art 9LV453 Mk3 combat data system. The ship can counter simultaneous threats from aircraft, surface vessels and submarines."
There is more but I think the leaflet is actually part of a trial being run by the Navy to test a biological weapon. If I let you read the whole thing, you'd know what I mean.
The stats from the leaflet (you have been warned).
Laid Down 5 June 1999
Launched 17 June 2000
Commissioned 4 October 2003
Displacement 3600 tonnes
Length 118 metres
Beam 4.8 metres
Armament 1 x 5 inch (127mm) Mk45 Mod 2 automatic rapid fire gun Mk41 vertical launch system with the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile 2 x Mk32 Mod 5 triple mounted torpedo tubes 4 x 50 calibre (12.7 mm) machine guns.
Main machinery 1 x General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engine 2 x MTU 12V 1163 diesel engines driving two controllable pitch propellers
Speed More than 27 knots
Ship's Company Approximately 177
I should have use this photo when I was trying to describe the Festival. (The shed along at the left/back (Princes Wharf) is where the trading stalls were. The long shed in the middle (Elizabeth St Pier) had the art displays. In front of that, in the marina, is where the boats were gathered. Everything else of screen to the right. Now go back and read whatever I said before :)
I'm not going to add many comments, because would be of the form "We walked through here, and then along here" and you can see that from the photos.
Until we get through to this bit, which opens onto the stern
where there were displays and things set up. A general information table on the right there,
and this would be the one on the left.
I think the one behind is HMAS Ballarat.
The website is being screwy on me, so I'll type up a bit from the leaflet we were given.
"HMAS Parramatta is the fifth of eight ANZAC class frigates built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) by Tenix Defence Systems, Williamstown, Victoria.
"HMAS Parramatta is a long-range frigate capable of air defence, surface and undersea warfare, surveillance, reconnaissance and interdiction. HMAS Parramatta is fitted with an advanced package of air and surface surveillance radar, omn-directional hull mounted sonar and electronic support systems which interface with the state-of-the-art 9LV453 Mk3 combat data system. The ship can counter simultaneous threats from aircraft, surface vessels and submarines."
There is more but I think the leaflet is actually part of a trial being run by the Navy to test a biological weapon. If I let you read the whole thing, you'd know what I mean.
The stats from the leaflet (you have been warned).
Laid Down 5 June 1999
Launched 17 June 2000
Commissioned 4 October 2003
Displacement 3600 tonnes
Length 118 metres
Beam 4.8 metres
Armament 1 x 5 inch (127mm) Mk45 Mod 2 automatic rapid fire gun Mk41 vertical launch system with the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile 2 x Mk32 Mod 5 triple mounted torpedo tubes 4 x 50 calibre (12.7 mm) machine guns.
Main machinery 1 x General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engine 2 x MTU 12V 1163 diesel engines driving two controllable pitch propellers
Speed More than 27 knots
Ship's Company Approximately 177
I should have use this photo when I was trying to describe the Festival. (The shed along at the left/back (Princes Wharf) is where the trading stalls were. The long shed in the middle (Elizabeth St Pier) had the art displays. In front of that, in the marina, is where the boats were gathered. Everything else of screen to the right. Now go back and read whatever I said before :)
I'm not going to add many comments, because would be of the form "We walked through here, and then along here" and you can see that from the photos.
Until we get through to this bit, which opens onto the stern
where there were displays and things set up. A general information table on the right there,
and this would be the one on the left.
I think the one behind is HMAS Ballarat.
