All aboard HMAS Canberra, the Royal Australian Navy's biggest ship

By Peter Munro
Updated November 28 2014 - 1:13pm, first published November 27 2014 - 11:35am
Some of the crew at work on HMAS Canberra: the largest ship built for the Royal Australian Navy.
  Photo: Ben Rushton
Some of the crew at work on HMAS Canberra: the largest ship built for the Royal Australian Navy. Photo: Ben Rushton
HMAS Canberra is our Navy's largest warship
HMAS Canberra is our Navy's largest warship

So it's big: displacing up to 27,500 tonnes of water and stretching 230 metres long and 32 metres wide. Bigger than four Olympic-sized swimming pools. Bigger than eight standard-sized blue whales, if they happened to be lined up on the flight deck head to fluke.

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