Royal Australian Navy: Deconstruction "down under"

After just 15 years in active service, the Royal Australian Navy decommissioned its largest ship, the 47,000-tonne displacement tanker "Sirius", at the end of 2021. The ship had been purchased on the civilian market as a replacement for an obsolete single-hull tanker and subsequently navalised with a "flange-mounted" helicopter landing deck and RAS harness on both sides. When the two new operational supply vessels "Stalwart" and "Supply" (Cantabria class, 174 metres, 20,000 tonnes) built by Navantia in Spain arrived in 2021, it was too costly for the not overly large navy to maintain several different and less flexible support units. As reselling them was not profitable either, the tanker was scrapped "down under" without further ado and turned into 99% for reuse as scrap material. It is mentioned with pride that the "Sirius" was the largest ship ever to be deconstructed in Australia.