I bet it must be sad for the people who served on her. I dont like the puss but you cant run from the natural bond you have with your crew and ships. And at the end of the day its the memories you have on the piss or the sense of achievement you have once you come out of a deployment and workups.
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Yeah, they still served the USA. Do you think Australia's army is for Australia?? Don't be naive. There's a TREATY, remember? Australia has it's penis placed firmly in the USA's mouth. That's why it's in Afghanistan (WHY?) and Iraq (Also : WHY?).
In my opinion, it is better for a a ship to be sunk rather than being scrapped or being indignantly turned into an Arabian hotel like the Queen Elizabeth 2 or the Queen Mary in Long beach. Its better to have a wreck as the ship originally was even if it lies on the bottom of the ocean.
Could be the fact that when a great ship like that gets so old I would cost alot more money to repair and the upgrades would be far to much to put on an olden like her as where you could build a new one and install all the new stuff in that one. I would rather sink a ship than sell her onto a country that would use it for war that the old owner was trying to stop.
Because metal sure doesn't come from the Earth, hey.
I don't suppose you've ever seen a real shipwreck before, since you think it's 'polluting' the seas - anything toxic would have been removed well before. Shipwrecks provide a safehaven for fish and other marine life and eventually become overgrown with coral anyway.
Try doing some research before spouting rubbish like that all over the place, thanks.
You're right. Uranium is a natural material as well, and that doesn't do any harm either. Any fool knows that metal comes from the earth, doh. Have you ever thought about the amount of it? I don't think you would have found as much metal, toxic paints aso in the seas, if it weren't for humans?
I'm not saying that the sinking of a ship destroys the planet. But why ad to the problem?
My english skills isn't anywhere good enough to explain the thing i'd like to say. But here's a bit of it.
The difference is that we Aussies don't just dump uranium into the oceans. The stuff our ships are made from - steel, predominantly, which comes from iron and other harmless elements as you probably know - is not toxic to anything I know of and is, in fact, rather important to most living things. With copper you have a problem as too much copper will kill things off, but being as valuable as it is, that's stripped out anyway. Putting iron on the sea floor won't hurt - if anything, it'll help.
Not in this case ian197325, The ship is in shallow water and has an exclusion zone around it, only dive boats can drop divers off near it. Its mast is still 6 meters above water with live webcams above & below the water
Waste of money 420chronmasta??, what do you mean?, Building it?, buying it?, using it for 30 years?, sinking it???. Did you want it sent to the black ants of ethiopia so that they could eat it???. you retard.... Prolly!!
420chronmasr, Using it after 38 yrs of service as a dive wreck gives the local diving shops in Albany a huge income boost to the community. It costs money to moor a vessel.
Yes mate they are holes, it helps sink the ship in one piece they dont wont to smash the ship up as the reason to sink it is it atracts marine life and acts as a reef.
Brenics77, The square holes on the hull are for divers to safely access the wreck as its only a few meters down. There was no chance of it breaking up as it sank. It's rear was on the bottom whilst the bow was still exposed.
Malisedave, if you think our western Govts sink these old obsolete boats so that "Foreign Baddies" dont get their hands on them AND you are in the RAN then i pity the bilge pump you clean cause you sir are retarded
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Yeah thats one of the main reasons. You must be the biggest fuck head you rekon u know more about this than somone whose actually in the navy u FUCKWIT!
and i fix choppers not bilge pumps so pretty much my salary is most likly at least double yours so not bad for a retard aye?
Malisedave as u are only an immature 18 yr old in the lowest echelons of the RAN i doubt that you earn more than i do as a medical registrar, u wouldnt even be qualified at 18 to wipe the windscreen of a chopper let alone try "fixing" anything.
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lol common gutter mouth ossie yob! how about u go fuck yourself? im a fuckin good at my job so dont stress about my position of importance or my maturity.
and usa eats dick everyone hates you for a reason!
Dear MalaiseDave, if you cannot keep a civil tounge in your foul mouth then im going to infor your so called "navy" that you are a little mentaly unbalances and should NOT be pretending to be in the navy
So all in all, we see a lovely ol' gal sinked, which was most likely used standing right beside the American warships fighting along side to preserve freedom, and here we are fighting. Over a couple of the two greatest nations in the world. I'd never turn a blind eye to America, nor mock her or her citizens and generally Americans show Austalians nothing but respect. So why not stop your fighting, possibly redirect your anger to Asians, or to the assholes shooting at our soldiers in Iraq.
Thank you mate. It breaks my heart everytime I hear Australians mocking America and Visa Versa. I don't know why we distance ourselves from one another... The way I see it, is America is not a brother... Not just another Alli, you're us, and we're you. Just a hand in hand, side by side friendship that will never perish, it brings me joy to think that America and Australia, no matter our size, or military strength, will fight together until the end of our existance, (Inc Canada, UK, NZ).
So all in all, we see a lovely ol' gal sinked, which was most likely used standing right beside the American warships fighting along side to preserve freedom, and here we are fighting. Over a couple of the two greatest nations in the world. I'd never turn a blind eye to America, nor mock her or her citizens and generally Americans show Austalians nothing but respect. So why not stop your fighting, possibly redirect your anger to Asians, or to the assholes shooting at our soldiers in Iraq.
It is, but remember that this way, instead of being turned into scrap, it will become a home for hundreds of thousands of living creatures and help preserve reef ecosystems. For a ship, seems a pretty good way to go, if you ask me.
shame to see this ship be sunken but its a great experience to be able to dive through them and get a different perspective on the ships and their history
Blimey, i was half crying when it went unda for the last time. Good looking ship, did its time with RAN very well. Was onnit for a tour of guide many years ago. I so wanted to be a sailor boy that time....long live HMAS Perth!
I'm not a product of the 1950s, but that hardly prevents me from proffering an informed opinion of that era, or of demonstrating some interest beyond the narrow confines of my own life experience.
This was an American built ship of the Charles F Adams Class. I served on DDG 18, USS Semmes. Kind of sad to see it go down. I thought the pipes were appropriate.
What the hell? whats with the bagpipes like?..was the ship made in Scotland?...No, i didn't think it was, so why the pipes, maybe they should have used an aborigine tribesman with a digereedoo.
Wow. Had few tears to my eyes. Thought the scottish pipe was a nice 'send-off'. I went on a tour on that ship early in my teens when it made a visit to Adelaide (early 80's) and always like the design. Well built, very handsome. Nice way to end a ship I suppose - better than getting butchered as scrap heap. At least it will be in Australian water, her home, for forever. Long remembered DD 38.
I guess reef argument is the best i heard for coral growth ...but then again recycling wouldnt of hurt neither .lol.. as long as there is no envoronmental harm its ok with me
Heh heh. FredDude27 is right, of course, as is gnarkillkickass. Ship sinking to make artificial reefs is usually done in a precise manner with demolitions so that the ship settles to the bottom in a certain manner, normally to make sure she doesn't settle top down or break up into pieces. I really don't think your comment deserved all the thumbs downs, but they probably came from the fact that sailors HATE having their ship called a BOAT.
And just so you'll know ( with the exception of submarines, which have always been called boats ), the rule of thumb for deciding what to call a seagoing vessel is, "a boat can be carried on a ship, but a ship cannot be carried on a boat". It's just a rule of thumb because it's not always true ( think Yachts ), but normally that rule will apply.
they are trying to make the origional charles f adams a museum in jacksonville florida...i hope they succeed....i miss that old tin can and would love to see her again
What a sad sad thing to do. She was a magnificent ship and they did her like that. She should have gone to a major city and become a museum like VAMPIRE in Sydney. But the miserable lousy politicians do this to our magic proud ships. Disgusted.Articial reef? yeah great. Bullshit. She served in Vietnam was part of our proud history. The americans are smart enough to keep them and hand them to groups who keep them alive . So sad. Bye
PERTH you did us proud. Sorry for the treachery. :-(
Chartash89, I agree with you, she should have been left as a museum. As it is now only a small number of the public who are certified divers will get to see her whilst the great majority will never see the ship. As for artificial reef- who cares you are'nt allowed to moor or fish near it.
Would you rather have her scrapped? It costs a lot more to keep refurbish her and fix all that is wrong. It may cost millions to sink her but it costs billions to have her as a museum. If I had the money then every old warship would either be a museum or an artificial reef. I can't stand to see a ship scrapped.
i agree...i served on the charles f adams and i hope they make her a museum in mayport...i hate to see ships go down like that....better to go down in battle....not as target practice.....it hurts me to see that
I feel sad seeing Warships disposed of in this manner, or any manner I suppose. But I guess whether in battle or during peace, ships being of what they are, have very good odds on ending up beneath the waves. Just like humans ending up beneath the ground. Time moves on for all.
My father served on the Perth for part of his initial training during his 20 years of service, he was sad to see it go as it was the first ship he was posted to
Just a small thing my friend, and I know you meant no disrespect. But to those who lived and served on her she will never be the " ex HMAS Perth ". Just as my old ship will never be the " ex USS Hoel ". Those old Charles Adams Class DDG's were the most beautiful ships ever built and they were our homes. Thank you for posting this. Was nice seeing on get the funeral it deserved. As Obermaat43 said, we were a family, and the ladies were familymembers.
My old ship( USS Hoel DDG-13 )which I served on from 71 to 74 spent many nights on the gunline in Viet Nam. Then after the war they just stuck her in mothbolls and let her rot. I saw pictures of her there with hatches carelessly open, paint peeling, with rust steaks all over her. It broke my heart. I know what you mean about getting choked up, BanjoMan. They finally removed her superstructure and turned her into a power barge in Guam. She deserved better. At least Perth was buried with respect.
i wish my old ship had suffered the same fate as Perth. The offal barge, (Melbourne), was sold for scrap. But we got a little pleasure out of seeing her give them a hard time by breaking away from the tug at sea. I hoped she turned turtle and sunk then and there, but that wasn't to happen.
At least this one got a proper burial. The ship I was stationed on USS Sellers DDG11 was sold for scrap. After decommissioning the name on the fantail was painted over. I nearly choked up seeing that. Living aboard one of these things can get you really attached to them.
Yeah,they just sunk recently HMNZS Canterbury ( Leander ) Spent a good part of my life as a civvy keeping her going.The one thing I am going to do before I die is to dive on her and say goodbye...
I´m so sad to see her go! But she went down how a beautiful Lady deserves (not like "my" Charles F. Adams D-185 "Lütjens" who was wrecked down in Turkey or somewhere). If I can ever afford it I will visit the "Perth" someday!!!
Ahh... it's funny yet somehow appropriate that we're capable of expressing such emotion over a few sheets of rivetted steel & aluminium.
Obermaat, I harbour similar sentiments towards HMAS Brisbane, an Adams class DDG and one of Perth's sister ships in the 1st Australian Destroyer Squadron, to which a similar fate beckoned (a sunken dive wreck).
I remember Lutjens, Molders & Rommel in the navy of the FDR, from my days as a crew member on Brisbane way back in the early '80s!
When i was driving on Lütjens we saw ourselves as a Family, no Wonder we were calling the other DDG´s from Australia,Greece,USA etc. "Sistership´s"... unfortunately some of the Familymembers are gone now but the Dynasty still exist´s ;-)
Why would they sink it in the middle of a harbour?
stalkingalizee 4 months ago
y did they sink it i didnt think anything was wrong with it
98redtwo 4 months ago
I bet it must be sad for the people who served on her. I dont like the puss but you cant run from the natural bond you have with your crew and ships. And at the end of the day its the memories you have on the piss or the sense of achievement you have once you come out of a deployment and workups.
techlogi7 1 year ago
sad. Ships seem so dead without a crew on them. so many memories and friendships go down with them.
tumblindice66 1 year ago
Pity it wasnt full of Muslim extremists when it went down
AngryLesbian 1 year ago
I remember this i was sinking it.Thanks for the video.
AustraliaNavy 1 year ago
the Australian defense force is for the australian peopel and is in Iraq because it is there to help there people.
australian1000 2 years ago
they sunk it for people to go diving on it plus it builds a new site for sea creatures to live i'm ment to go for a dive on this sometime soon
shpooner 2 years ago 6
The fate of an Australian destroyer !!.. Poetic in this instance. When and where is the next decommissioning event in au ??. Anyone know?
Skrimla 2 years ago
this ship had like 1 turret on it and never shot it. Why was it treated like a major thing
Apeman1991 2 years ago
Sorry mate it had 2 and served 3 times in the Vietnam War. It was hit twice by NVA gunfire.
sonarmb 2 years ago 6
It had two turrets (or mountings, as they were known on DDGs), and they were both used operationally in Vietnam.
Prvnipes 2 years ago 3
why don't they melt all that metal and build a new ship, why sink it?
annd87 2 years ago 4
diving with sea creatures rules
3aw77 2 years ago
poor ship dont desert they serve the USA much years and die like this?
frango5000 2 years ago
This is an australian ship...
blakerook 2 years ago 2
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Yeah, they still served the USA. Do you think Australia's army is for Australia?? Don't be naive. There's a TREATY, remember? Australia has it's penis placed firmly in the USA's mouth. That's why it's in Afghanistan (WHY?) and Iraq (Also : WHY?).
314noceu 2 years ago
just like your penis being in your brothers mouth!!!!
tongandennis 2 years ago
@314noceu To kill those dirty Muslim Terrorists
alpha662 1 year ago
ur a moron cochrane, artificial reefs are a haven for all sorts of sea life
mikkianddeclan 2 years ago
So now this rotting hulk of steel will be polluting the seabed?
cochranexyz 2 years ago
yep! :D
Scoggs117 2 years ago
no... they had to de contaminate it first (remove oil, copper, nickel, heavy metals, gas explosives etc.)
Jmcmonw 2 years ago
In my opinion, it is better for a a ship to be sunk rather than being scrapped or being indignantly turned into an Arabian hotel like the Queen Elizabeth 2 or the Queen Mary in Long beach. Its better to have a wreck as the ship originally was even if it lies on the bottom of the ocean.
MaxTheMann 2 years ago 3
I think what the arabs did to qe2 is inhumane! theyre destroying it. Better it be scuttled than turned mutilated
polkm714 2 years ago 2
I live in Albany, but I didn't go to see this. Sinking a ship with 30 years of service is sad :(
ausaskar 2 years ago
ALBANY <3
blakerook 2 years ago
i thought HMAS was Hamas lol
myspacecomustopit 3 years ago
Sad to see her go, I operated with her when I was on the USS Kitty hawk in 99. It also makes me more angry about my HMAS Perth zippo being stolen.
Scott11078 3 years ago
sad muzic
matexson92 3 years ago
OMFG IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK
Sight099 3 years ago
Why do that with so big and good boat ? XD
Brakkzo 3 years ago
Could be the fact that when a great ship like that gets so old I would cost alot more money to repair and the upgrades would be far to much to put on an olden like her as where you could build a new one and install all the new stuff in that one. I would rather sink a ship than sell her onto a country that would use it for war that the old owner was trying to stop.
vonchappell 3 years ago
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Yet another big peice of metal polluting the seas. Great job ppl. rly beautiful.
jo05dk 3 years ago
Because metal sure doesn't come from the Earth, hey.
I don't suppose you've ever seen a real shipwreck before, since you think it's 'polluting' the seas - anything toxic would have been removed well before. Shipwrecks provide a safehaven for fish and other marine life and eventually become overgrown with coral anyway.
Try doing some research before spouting rubbish like that all over the place, thanks.
rossmum 3 years ago 5
You're right. Uranium is a natural material as well, and that doesn't do any harm either. Any fool knows that metal comes from the earth, doh. Have you ever thought about the amount of it? I don't think you would have found as much metal, toxic paints aso in the seas, if it weren't for humans?
I'm not saying that the sinking of a ship destroys the planet. But why ad to the problem?
My english skills isn't anywhere good enough to explain the thing i'd like to say. But here's a bit of it.
jo05dk 3 years ago
The difference is that we Aussies don't just dump uranium into the oceans. The stuff our ships are made from - steel, predominantly, which comes from iron and other harmless elements as you probably know - is not toxic to anything I know of and is, in fact, rather important to most living things. With copper you have a problem as too much copper will kill things off, but being as valuable as it is, that's stripped out anyway. Putting iron on the sea floor won't hurt - if anything, it'll help.
rossmum 3 years ago
Nobody can use these out of date hunks of scrap, there sunk just to get rid of them .
patriotflagbearer 3 years ago 3
Bagpipes are annoying and non-musical.
johnjhuff 3 years ago
Don't they usually remove the masts so they don't catch on anything?
ian197325 3 years ago
Not in this case ian197325, The ship is in shallow water and has an exclusion zone around it, only dive boats can drop divers off near it. Its mast is still 6 meters above water with live webcams above & below the water
alpha662 3 years ago
It had a long time in service...
And if ur suggesting they keep it, it would 'waste' even more money on maintenance.
TheRetardedGoat 3 years ago 3
oh i didnt know it was used for a long time, thought it was new
420chronmasta 3 years ago
what a fucking waist of money. the money they spend on that ship could have fed 1000's of people for years prolly.
420chronmasta 3 years ago
Waste of money 420chronmasta??, what do you mean?, Building it?, buying it?, using it for 30 years?, sinking it???. Did you want it sent to the black ants of ethiopia so that they could eat it???. you retard.... Prolly!!
OsamaBinASSlickin 3 years ago
i mean destroying it seems like a waist of money hehe
420chronmasta 3 years ago
420chronmasr, Using it after 38 yrs of service as a dive wreck gives the local diving shops in Albany a huge income boost to the community. It costs money to moor a vessel.
alpha662 3 years ago
I've noticed a lot of black spots on that ship.
Are those holes by any chance? :S
chd2193 3 years ago
Yes mate they are holes, it helps sink the ship in one piece they dont wont to smash the ship up as the reason to sink it is it atracts marine life and acts as a reef.
brenics77 3 years ago
Brenics77, The square holes on the hull are for divers to safely access the wreck as its only a few meters down. There was no chance of it breaking up as it sank. It's rear was on the bottom whilst the bow was still exposed.
OsamaBinASSlickin 3 years ago 3
The large black square holes are for Divers to safely access the wreck, its only 22 meters down and the mast is exposed above the water.
Check out the live webcam on the ship....
OsamaBinASSlickin 3 years ago 2
the majestic lady belongs to the sea now, same fate happened to my old ship HMAS Hobart 39.
heelers 3 years ago 3
this video was good
hi anyone want to chat R9
123chamx 3 years ago 2
nice ship, nice sinking, nice Video
soberauzzie 3 years ago 2
A very appropriate tribute for an old gray lady. The pipes were a fitting farewell.
Better end to be a fish condo and a diver's trek, than broken up for razor blades.
Sleep Well, HMAS Perth.
jrrtknight 3 years ago 12
That too.
MikeofWyoming 3 years ago
rest in peace HMAS perth
7600692 3 years ago 3
Well, it real is a testiment to the western naval power in the world...we have to sink our own ships just to get new ones.
MikeofWyoming 3 years ago
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we sink em, so no rag head cunt gets them and shoots back with it,fuck wit.
Malisedave 3 years ago
"shoots back"?
next you're going to tell us the talebans in Afghanistan would use them, when Afghanistand doens't even have a shore
McLarenMercedes 3 years ago 7
lol really funny image of some taliban sneaking on a ship and going
" umm wheres the keys"
then trying to jump start it
bunnjovi1988 3 years ago 2
lol thanks i was running out of thing to make me laugh about the taliban
bighairybiker45 3 years ago
You're intelligent!
SpecialTBK 3 years ago
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Dont be a smart ass. The reason we destroy them is so other nations dont get their hands on them.
are you saying im wrong?
Malisedave 3 years ago
So, So Sooooooooooo wrong.
SpecialTBK 3 years ago 2
Maisedave, we sestroy these vessels because they are old and obsolete not because the Taliban will steal it and use it against us, you dummy
alpha662 3 years ago 5
I am in the RAN but yeah sure mate what the fuck would i know.
Malisedave 3 years ago
Malisedave, if you think our western Govts sink these old obsolete boats so that "Foreign Baddies" dont get their hands on them AND you are in the RAN then i pity the bilge pump you clean cause you sir are retarded
alpha662 3 years ago 4
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Yeah thats one of the main reasons. You must be the biggest fuck head you rekon u know more about this than somone whose actually in the navy u FUCKWIT!
and i fix choppers not bilge pumps so pretty much my salary is most likly at least double yours so not bad for a retard aye?
Malisedave 3 years ago
Malisedave as u are only an immature 18 yr old in the lowest echelons of the RAN i doubt that you earn more than i do as a medical registrar, u wouldnt even be qualified at 18 to wipe the windscreen of a chopper let alone try "fixing" anything.
alpha662 3 years ago 4
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yeah im 19 and im in the highest paying non officer job in the navy, sounds pretty good aye!
and being that you doubt im not qualified to do anything means you dont know shit. so once again cunt you are wrong.
Malisedave 3 years ago
Geez dave, going by your common use of the language dude, i would be concerned re your maturity to be in a position of importance in your RAN.
Mature dude, you give yr navy a bad name
OsamaBinASSlickin 3 years ago 3
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lol common gutter mouth ossie yob! how about u go fuck yourself? im a fuckin good at my job so dont stress about my position of importance or my maturity.
and usa eats dick everyone hates you for a reason!
Malisedave 3 years ago
Dear MalaiseDave, if you cannot keep a civil tounge in your foul mouth then im going to infor your so called "navy" that you are a little mentaly unbalances and should NOT be pretending to be in the navy
AngryLesbian 3 years ago
Oh dear Malisedave i think you might have "small mans syndrome" or in other works a tiny Penis.
Please go play pretend in your bathtub
AngryLesbian 3 years ago
So all in all, we see a lovely ol' gal sinked, which was most likely used standing right beside the American warships fighting along side to preserve freedom, and here we are fighting. Over a couple of the two greatest nations in the world. I'd never turn a blind eye to America, nor mock her or her citizens and generally Americans show Austalians nothing but respect. So why not stop your fighting, possibly redirect your anger to Asians, or to the assholes shooting at our soldiers in Iraq.
Psychoseacow 3 years ago
Amen. Blessings from America
thetachi136 3 years ago
Thank you mate. It breaks my heart everytime I hear Australians mocking America and Visa Versa. I don't know why we distance ourselves from one another... The way I see it, is America is not a brother... Not just another Alli, you're us, and we're you. Just a hand in hand, side by side friendship that will never perish, it brings me joy to think that America and Australia, no matter our size, or military strength, will fight together until the end of our existance, (Inc Canada, UK, NZ).
Psychoseacow 3 years ago
Hey MailiseDave go back to playing with toy boats in your mommas bath tub and leave the worlds protection to the USA, u common gutter mouth Ossie yob
OsamaBinASSlickin 3 years ago
So all in all, we see a lovely ol' gal sinked, which was most likely used standing right beside the American warships fighting along side to preserve freedom, and here we are fighting. Over a couple of the two greatest nations in the world. I'd never turn a blind eye to America, nor mock her or her citizens and generally Americans show Austalians nothing but respect. So why not stop your fighting, possibly redirect your anger to Asians, or to the assholes shooting at our soldiers in Iraq.
Psychoseacow 3 years ago
hate the music
250RRaptor 3 years ago
It's sad to see something that took so much to construct end this way.
MikeofWyoming 3 years ago
It is, but remember that this way, instead of being turned into scrap, it will become a home for hundreds of thousands of living creatures and help preserve reef ecosystems. For a ship, seems a pretty good way to go, if you ask me.
SnowHeart1 3 years ago 7
Yeah, istend of it becoming scrap metal, its a reef!
reallyred123 3 years ago 2
they could of gave it to me and i could of cruized the world......so long as i found about a thousand other people to share the fuel bill...
tippo747 3 years ago
shame to see this ship be sunken but its a great experience to be able to dive through them and get a different perspective on the ships and their history
aussiemeg08 3 years ago
Blimey, i was half crying when it went unda for the last time. Good looking ship, did its time with RAN very well. Was onnit for a tour of guide many years ago. I so wanted to be a sailor boy that time....long live HMAS Perth!
dj17q 3 years ago
THAT SANK PRETTY FAST
boomboomOO7 3 years ago
Was I typing too quickly?
zdlx 3 years ago
they coulda gave the ship to me
6969skater6969 3 years ago
I'm not a product of the 1950s, but that hardly prevents me from proffering an informed opinion of that era, or of demonstrating some interest beyond the narrow confines of my own life experience.
zdlx 3 years ago
You don't seem to be able to 'speak' anything...
zdlx 3 years ago
LMAO, me too.
TyphoonHaloHelp 3 years ago
Ummm... duetodie, are you an emo?
I was a goth back in the early '80s. Dark times had by all.
I also served on board the HMAS Brisbane (sister ship to the Perth) back then. Brisbane didn't come equipped with ghosts though.
zdlx 3 years ago
It was haunted.
zdlx 3 years ago
man they should have gave it to me i just warships i'm a huge WW2 fan and i would of loved to have it.(huge American,British,and Austrilain boat fan)
nickkid11 3 years ago
3 plus 8`s is an eleven.Bad number for a boat anyway.
pwarren1010 3 years ago
Why is 11 bad number for boat?? superstition?
gutntag 3 years ago
Salute. It is so sad.
But I think retired warships should be tarminated their lives in the sea.
The demolition is a blasphemy to their career.
show5123 3 years ago 3
And a nice little effect at the end !
WiggyDiggyPoo 3 years ago
I spent time on the Perth. Im glad she had pipes for the send off. Her bow going under last also made a dignified ending. Well done.
buryitdeep 3 years ago
This was an American built ship of the Charles F Adams Class. I served on DDG 18, USS Semmes. Kind of sad to see it go down. I thought the pipes were appropriate.
jim543212 3 years ago 2
idiot
cicciocaranna 3 years ago
"My seabag, anyone seen my seabag?.......oh craaaaaaap !!!
hypermite01 3 years ago
dont blow up the ship! give it to me!!
leegwalker 3 years ago 9
What the hell? whats with the bagpipes like?..was the ship made in Scotland?...No, i didn't think it was, so why the pipes, maybe they should have used an aborigine tribesman with a digereedoo.
baggu250 3 years ago
australia has a large population of irish and scottish expats it could be have been an irish bagpipe
bunnjovi1988 3 years ago
it's me but i found it a bit too weepy, most chips get chopped up for scrap. this one is a reef
roudy1689 3 years ago
Wow. Had few tears to my eyes. Thought the scottish pipe was a nice 'send-off'. I went on a tour on that ship early in my teens when it made a visit to Adelaide (early 80's) and always like the design. Well built, very handsome. Nice way to end a ship I suppose - better than getting butchered as scrap heap. At least it will be in Australian water, her home, for forever. Long remembered DD 38.
dj17q 3 years ago
In the world war 2, both axis and allied are thinking how to keep their war ship still floating even though its too old to enter the battle.
Now became opposite! why they sink the ship? Even in the view of economic, better dismantling and sold as a scrap. Price of iron now is sky rocking.
Artificial reefs? Better put is as museum like Malaysian done. Everybody can visit without diving equipment
ammar82ikhwan 3 years ago
artificial reef making is a good job :P
ThePaperCreator 3 years ago
I guess reef argument is the best i heard for coral growth ...but then again recycling wouldnt of hurt neither .lol.. as long as there is no envoronmental harm its ok with me
joestyllo 3 years ago
why they explode the boat to make it sink?
LaBoricuaGirl160 3 years ago
Ships dont sink themselves.
FredDude27 3 years ago 6
Lots of navies sink their boats to turn them into artificial reefs for coral growth and diving attractions etc.
gnarkillkicksass 3 years ago
Heh heh. FredDude27 is right, of course, as is gnarkillkickass. Ship sinking to make artificial reefs is usually done in a precise manner with demolitions so that the ship settles to the bottom in a certain manner, normally to make sure she doesn't settle top down or break up into pieces. I really don't think your comment deserved all the thumbs downs, but they probably came from the fact that sailors HATE having their ship called a BOAT.
Rikki0 3 years ago 2
And just so you'll know ( with the exception of submarines, which have always been called boats ), the rule of thumb for deciding what to call a seagoing vessel is, "a boat can be carried on a ship, but a ship cannot be carried on a boat". It's just a rule of thumb because it's not always true ( think Yachts ), but normally that rule will apply.
Rikki0 3 years ago 2
RikkiO, I spent 17 years in the navy, and I still call them boats.
zdlx 3 years ago
If the morons in Canberra could not make a museum of her, its a good way for an old Fighting Lady to go.
Certainly beats a scrap yard.
eprisband 3 years ago 3
wtf y did they sink da boat
die808 3 years ago
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fucking bagpipes...what a headache. should have let us hear what it sounds like when a huge ship goes under
goophing 3 years ago
You can watch my video of the sinking with real sound and narration from one of the crew members. Yeah I hate bagpipes as well.
5Fathom5 3 years ago
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horrible music
ps2freak136 3 years ago
they are trying to make the origional charles f adams a museum in jacksonville florida...i hope they succeed....i miss that old tin can and would love to see her again
yetitracker 3 years ago
Nice finishing effect to the video!!
GardensOfStone 3 years ago 3
What a sad sad thing to do. She was a magnificent ship and they did her like that. She should have gone to a major city and become a museum like VAMPIRE in Sydney. But the miserable lousy politicians do this to our magic proud ships. Disgusted.Articial reef? yeah great. Bullshit. She served in Vietnam was part of our proud history. The americans are smart enough to keep them and hand them to groups who keep them alive . So sad. Bye
PERTH you did us proud. Sorry for the treachery. :-(
chartash69 3 years ago
Chartash89, I agree with you, she should have been left as a museum. As it is now only a small number of the public who are certified divers will get to see her whilst the great majority will never see the ship. As for artificial reef- who cares you are'nt allowed to moor or fish near it.
gasgasLex 3 years ago
And who would foot the bill to have her fitted out as a museum ship...?
tooby98765 3 years ago
So who will pay for the Maintenance on this in a - Museum?
SpecialTBK 3 years ago
Its underwater, it requires NO maintenance.
If it had been kept afloat as a museum then the City of Albany would decide who would maintain her
alpha662 3 years ago
That was the point I was making alpha... Cost too much to maintain in a museum!
SpecialTBK 3 years ago
Would you rather have her scrapped? It costs a lot more to keep refurbish her and fix all that is wrong. It may cost millions to sink her but it costs billions to have her as a museum. If I had the money then every old warship would either be a museum or an artificial reef. I can't stand to see a ship scrapped.
Himdarling44 3 years ago
i agree...i served on the charles f adams and i hope they make her a museum in mayport...i hate to see ships go down like that....better to go down in battle....not as target practice.....it hurts me to see that
yetitracker 3 years ago
y did they sink it
shilohkin6 3 years ago
Because she was obsolete and it is better to do this than have her rust away in a scrap yard.......still sad though
bigaussie68 3 years ago
Fantastic footage , It will make a great artificial reef
robdog000 3 years ago
So they Reefed her huh, Just like the Carrier Oriskany, its better then rusting away in Reserve berth, or being scrapped.
kdraper2007 3 years ago
The Piper's Lament - Looking forward to Dawn on Anzac Day where I'll here that again...
Jerram89 3 years ago
I feel sad seeing Warships disposed of in this manner, or any manner I suppose. But I guess whether in battle or during peace, ships being of what they are, have very good odds on ending up beneath the waves. Just like humans ending up beneath the ground. Time moves on for all.
grl8862 4 years ago 6
thats deep
JollyStudios 3 years ago 2
nearly as deep as the water where the ship has come to rest
BigTDog26 3 years ago
My father served on the Perth for part of his initial training during his 20 years of service, he was sad to see it go as it was the first ship he was posted to
1243568790 4 years ago
R.I.P Perth,TY 4 your service:)
mytube308 4 years ago 2
watch?v=zoTV8khNxHg
lyden2006 4 years ago
My dad was on the DDG2 Adams class. Anyone know anybody from that ship?
Guinness133 4 years ago
I was an o.s. on the Charles Adams in '82
dancindaze 3 years ago
I did some initial training on the Perth as a midshipman. She did Australia proud over the years. This is a fitting tribute, thanks for posting.
chewie211171 4 years ago
My pleasure.
It was nice to have her moored in our harbour for 2yrs prior to her sinking.
Gone but not forgotten...
gasgasLex 4 years ago
Just a small thing my friend, and I know you meant no disrespect. But to those who lived and served on her she will never be the " ex HMAS Perth ". Just as my old ship will never be the " ex USS Hoel ". Those old Charles Adams Class DDG's were the most beautiful ships ever built and they were our homes. Thank you for posting this. Was nice seeing on get the funeral it deserved. As Obermaat43 said, we were a family, and the ladies were familymembers.
Rikki0 4 years ago 2
Well said.
zdlx 4 years ago
My old ship( USS Hoel DDG-13 )which I served on from 71 to 74 spent many nights on the gunline in Viet Nam. Then after the war they just stuck her in mothbolls and let her rot. I saw pictures of her there with hatches carelessly open, paint peeling, with rust steaks all over her. It broke my heart. I know what you mean about getting choked up, BanjoMan. They finally removed her superstructure and turned her into a power barge in Guam. She deserved better. At least Perth was buried with respect.
Rikki0 4 years ago
I think the USS Hoel visited Albany in the late 70's or early 1980's.
As a kid I never missed an opportunity to climb aboard a visiting US warship.
gasgasLex 4 years ago
i wish my old ship had suffered the same fate as Perth. The offal barge, (Melbourne), was sold for scrap. But we got a little pleasure out of seeing her give them a hard time by breaking away from the tug at sea. I hoped she turned turtle and sunk then and there, but that wasn't to happen.
jakyjac63 4 years ago
oh yeah I totaly agree. What a cursed dam hulk she was.
chartash69 3 years ago
The web cam on it is facinating though. I caught a diver a few times. At leat it is beeing used as a reef...
Polpolker 4 years ago
At least this one got a proper burial. The ship I was stationed on USS Sellers DDG11 was sold for scrap. After decommissioning the name on the fantail was painted over. I nearly choked up seeing that. Living aboard one of these things can get you really attached to them.
BanjoMan550 4 years ago
Too true Banjoman, our govt's are too quick to send these ole warhorses off to an ignominious end.
gasgasLex 4 years ago
Yeah,they just sunk recently HMNZS Canterbury ( Leander ) Spent a good part of my life as a civvy keeping her going.The one thing I am going to do before I die is to dive on her and say goodbye...
saltydog45 4 years ago
We(USS Dewey DDG-45) used to moor at the same pier with Sellers(DDG-11) in Charleston. Those ships will never be forgotten.
36index 4 years ago
Sad sight seeing the good old days sinking before your own eyes.
Dutchy1965 4 years ago 2
I´m so sad to see her go! But she went down how a beautiful Lady deserves (not like "my" Charles F. Adams D-185 "Lütjens" who was wrecked down in Turkey or somewhere). If I can ever afford it I will visit the "Perth" someday!!!
Obermaat43 4 years ago
Ahh... it's funny yet somehow appropriate that we're capable of expressing such emotion over a few sheets of rivetted steel & aluminium.
Obermaat, I harbour similar sentiments towards HMAS Brisbane, an Adams class DDG and one of Perth's sister ships in the 1st Australian Destroyer Squadron, to which a similar fate beckoned (a sunken dive wreck).
I remember Lutjens, Molders & Rommel in the navy of the FDR, from my days as a crew member on Brisbane way back in the early '80s!
zdlx 4 years ago
When i was driving on Lütjens we saw ourselves as a Family, no Wonder we were calling the other DDG´s from Australia,Greece,USA etc. "Sistership´s"... unfortunately some of the Familymembers are gone now but the Dynasty still exist´s ;-)
Obermaat43 4 years ago
It´s a decent end for a ship.
MauricioCasteglione 4 years ago
Hmmm...
I served my time on Brisbane from November '80 to August '82 as an AB weapons mechanic.
I ended my career in the RAN as a Clearance Diver based at Team 4, HMAS Stirling.
Nice vid, by the way.
zdlx 4 years ago
Thanks for that, Being scottish the pipes were a nice touch for me
michaelwright999 4 years ago
good stuff chaps when did you scuttle her and where?
michaelwright999 4 years ago
If you click on the "more" link in the "About This Video" box, upper right corner, you will find the answers to this and other questions.
jrmprs 4 years ago
Is that Australian recycling?
mijimindo 4 years ago
I LOVE THIS SHIP
starbster 4 years ago
I was out in my uncle's boat watching this when it happened. Even though it is a bit of a waste it was still pretty impressive seeing it go down.
ebglider91 4 years ago 2