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HMAS Brisbane (II) was a Perth class guided missile destroyer, built by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company at Bay City, Michigan, USA and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on December 16, 1967. She served in the Vietnam War and in the first Gulf War with distinction. Brisbane and was decommissioned on October 19, 2001, and was marked to be sunk as a dive wreck. Brisbane was sunk on July 31, 2005 approximately 5 kilometres off the coast of Mudjimba, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, in 30 metres of water. Her bridge was removed and preserved at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.