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Appearance
![HMAS Melbourne in 2009](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/HMAS_Melbourne_2009.jpg/150px-HMAS_Melbourne_2009.jpg)
HMAS Melbourne (III) is an Adelaide class guided missile frigate laid down by AMECON at Williamstown in Victoria on 12 July 1985, launched on 5 May 1989 and commissioned on 15 February 1992. Melbourne saw active service in the Persian Gulf and off East Timor. It was decommissioned on 26 October 2019.