HMAS Brisbane (1915)

For other ships of this name, see HMAS Brisbane.

Career Australia
HMAS Brisbane shortly after completion in 1916
Class and type:	Town class light cruiser
Builder:	HMA Naval Dockyard, Cockatoo Island
Laid down:	25 January 1913
Launched:	30 September 1915
Commissioned:	31 October 1916
Decommissioned:	24 September 1935
Status:	Sold for scrap in 1936
General Characteristics
Displacement:	5,400 tons
Length:	456 feet 8 3/8 inches
Beam:	49 feet 10 inches
Draught:	19 feet 11 inches
Propulsion:	Parsons turbines, 4 screws, 25,000 horsepower
Speed:	25.5 knots
Complement:	485
Armament:	8 x 6 inch guns 1 x 3 inch anti-aircraft gun 1 x 12 pounder gun<br<4 x 3 pounder guns 10 smaller guns 2 x 21 inch submerged torpedo tubes (broadside)
Motto:	"We Aim at Higher Things"
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HMAS Brisbane was a Town class light cruiser laid down by HMA Naval Dockyard at Cockatoo Island, Sydney in New South Wales on 25 January 1913, launched on 30 September 1915 by Mrs Fisher, wife of Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, and commissioned on 31 October 1916.

HMAS Brisbane paid off on 22 January 1929 and was placed in reserve at Sydney. The ship recommissioned on 2 April 1935 and sailed for the United Kingdom on 2 May 1935, manned by a complement which would form the balance of the ship's company of the cruiser HMAS Sydney. She paid off at Portsmouth in England on 24 September 1935 and sold for scrap to Thomas W. Ward and Company of Sheffield in June 1936.