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HMAS Melbourne, the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) first indigenously built Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7)- class guided missile frigate, was launched on 5 May in Melbourne.
She is to be operational in March 1992, almost seven years after her keel was laid. Her sister, the Newcastle, will follow in 1994. The RAN will decide this month which of two competing European frigate designs will follow the U. S.-designed FFG- 7-class ships into production.
The Al Hussein, the first of three 30-meter craft built for the Jordanian Coast Guard by Vosper Thor- nycroft, will patrol Jordan’s short coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba. Armament includes a director- controlled twin 30-mm. gun mount, a single 20-mm. weapon, and two machine guns.
BEN SULLIVAN
The Polish Navy’s flagship Warszawa visited London on 9 May. Formerly the Soviet Navy’s Modified Kashin- class guided-missile destroyer Smel’yy, the 4,950-ton ship was commissioned into Polish service on 9 January 1988 to replace a SAM Kotlin-class destroyer of the same name struck two years earlier.
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