![]() ![]() You can help improve our commands sectionĬlick here to Submit events/comments/updates for this vessel. Please note that we're still working on this sectionĪnd that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War. In March 1962 Hobart left Sydney to be towed to Osaka in Japan for breaking up by Mitsue & Co at the Miyachi shipyard where she arrived on 2 April 1962. On 2 February 1962 she was sold for scrap. In 1959 Hobart was placed into reserve and later during that year it was decided that she was surplus to requirements and placed on the disposal list. During this period, the plans regarding her being brought back into service as a fleet training ship were dropped. For this role she was given a lattice foremast, but had all torpedo tubes and secondary guns removed. During 1953 - 1956 Hobart was extensively refitted and partly converted and modernised as a training ship at Newcastle, New South Wales. On 20 December 1947, HMAS Hobart was decommissioned at Sydney. Post war HMAS Hobart remained in service making three deployments to Japanese waters. She was renamed HMAS Hobart and sailed for Australia towards the end of the year. On 28 September 1938, Apollo was acquired from the Royal Navy by the Royal Australian Navy, she was commissioned by the crew of HMAS Albatross (which had been transferred to the RN in part payment of Apollo) earlier than intended because of the Munich crisis. Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Apollo on 13 January 1936.įrom 1936 until 1938 HMS Apollo served on the America and West Indies Station. ![]()
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