Jan. 1919: Torpedoes are removed from HMAS BRISBANE [I] prior to refit at Portsmouth, UK – Photo AWM/RAN Historical.

The 5,400 ton Town Class light cruiser HMAS BRISBANE [I] is de-ammunitioned prior to her three-month refit in Portsmouth, U.K. from January to April 1919. The refit and surrounding events were described in the preceding entries.

Photo: Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial, image ID NO. EN0103, listed copyright expired, public domain. The image is also held in the RAN’s Navy Heritage Collection, imnage ID NO. 04790a, and has appeared on Ronnie Bell of Scotland’s Terminator4555 Photostgream here on Flickr.

HMAS BRISBANE 1919 – HMAS Brisbane and her sister ships HMA Ships Melbourne and Sydney were the first cruisers built for the RAN. They were constructed to the design of the ‘Chatham’ group of the British ‘Town’ Class.

Brisbane was launched on 30 September 1915 by Mrs Fisher the wife of the then Prime Minister Andrew Fisher. Brisbane commissioned at Sydney on 31 October 1916 under the command of Captain Claude L. Cumberlege RN.

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