Talk:Perth-class destroyer

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Strong start class - military ship infobox is needed.--Oldwildbill 08:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Pennant numbers

I was on the HMAS Brisbane (1991-1993) and I suspect calling it D41 (and the other destroyers Dxx) is not correct, as we always called it DDG41. Is there anything to verify this naming convention? Lmb71 (talk) 08:46, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Ross Gillet's Australian and New Zealand Warships since 1946 gives "D" as the pennant identifier for all three ships. While Brisbane's history does not appear on the Navy website, the page for sister ship Hobart gives "D39" (see the infobox and the placard in the photo of the launching ceremony). Although DDG was both the US Navy hull code for ships of this type and the shorthand for the particular class (DDG is a lot easier on the tongue than "Charles F. Adams class guided missile destroyer"), at the time the Perths entered Australian service, the RAN was still fairly wed to the British pennant system. Things may have changed by the time you served on Brisbane (by which point the RAN had migrated to a identification system based on the US hull number system and we were operating the definitely-FFG Adelaides) but the ships spent at least the early part of their careers without the extra "DG". -- saberwyn 09:34, 24 August 2011 (UTC)