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HMAS Adelaide (FFG 01) was an Australian Adelaide class guided-missile frigate laid down by Todd-Pacific Shipbuilding at Seattle, Washington 29 July 1977, launched 21 June 1978 and commissioned 15 November 1980. In 1990, along with HMAS Darwin, Adelaide deployed to the Middle East as part of Operation Damask, Australia's participation in the international coalition against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Adelaide saw further service in the Middle East, including two tours of active service, in support of Operation Slipper in 2001 and as part of Operation Catalyst in 2004. Adelaide was the ship which intercepted SIEV 4 in the event which sparked the Children overboard affair in October 2001. Adelaide was decommissioned in 2008 and deliberately sunk off the New South Wales coast to become a dive wreck in 2011.