HMAS Hobart
An item referred to the magazine R.U.S.I. dated August 1938 reporting that the British cruisers Apollo and Amphion in respectively September 1938 and July 1939 were to be handed over to Australia and to be renamed Perth (1) and Hobart.(2)
Notes
1. Building ordered on 1 December 1932, laid down on the Navy Dockyard at Portsmouth, England on 22 June 1933, launched on 27 July 1934, commissioned on 15 June 1936, sold to Australia in 1939, renamed HMS Perth on 10 July 1939, commissioned on 29 June 1939 and finally sunk in the Second Battle of the Java Sea as part of the Striking Force commanded by the Dutch rear admiral Karel Doorman against Japanese forces on 1 March 1942. Pennant 29 in British service and D29 in Australian service. Motto Floreat, Of the Leander-class light cruisers consisting of the Leander, Orion, Neptune, Ajax, Achilles, Amphion, Apollo and Sydney With the Leander and the Hobart-Perth-Sydney forming sub classes. Preceded by the Emerald class and succeeded by the Arethusa-class.
2. Building ordered on 1 March 1933, laid down on the Navy Dockyard at Devonport, England on 15 August 1933, launched on 9 October 1934, commissioned on 13 January 1936, sold to Australia in 1938, (part of the deal was the handing over of the seaplane tender HMAS Albatross to England), renamed HMAS Hobart, commissioned in Australian service on 28 September 1938, decommissioned on 20 December 1947, laid up in reserve, plans to convert her into an aircraft carrier escort and afterwards as troop convoy escort in 1950 were not executed, plans for conversion at the State Dockyard, Newcastle as replacement for the Australia in 1952, reduced budget prevented her commissioning as training ship in 1953-1954, further more was a conversion into a guided missile cruiser planned but not executed, all plans were abandoned around April 1955, and again laid up in reserve despite the spent money for converting/modifying her, sold to the Japanese company Mitsui&Co. Pty. Ltd. be broken up on 22 February 1962 which was executed at Osaka, Japan in 1962 after her arrival on 2 April 1962. Pennant 63 in British service and D63 in Australian service. Motto Ubertas et Fidelitas. Of the Leander-class light cruisers consisting of the Leander, Orion, Neptune, Ajax, Achilles, Amphion, Apollo and Sydney With the Leander and the Hobart-Perth-Sydney forming sub classes. Preceded by the Emerald class and succeeded by the Arethusa-class.
