Official battle honour board presented to Hobart Commanding Officer Captain John Stavridis

June 19th, 8:07pm October 9th, 4:24pm

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Navy

Commanding Officer for Hobart, Captain John Stavridis is presented with the official battle honour board for Hobart by Richard Yates.

On 16 June 2017, the first Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD), Hobart, was provisionally accepted by Defence at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in South Australia.

Hobart is the first of three destroyers being built and integrated by the AWD Alliance which comprises the Department of Defence, Raytheon Australia and ASC with support from Navantia. In the coming months, Hobart will transit from Adelaide to Sydney where she will be commissioned into service by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) later this year.

The ship’s provisional acceptance is a testament to more than 5,000 Australian shipbuilders and systems integrators who have worked on the AWD program over the past decade.