The aim of its deployment is to collaborate in the training of the endowments of its new destroyers of the "Hobart" class

The Spanish Navy's most modern escort ship has arrived in Australia today to join the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) for a period of four months, with the aim of helping to train the endowments of its new "Hobart" class destroyers. The frigate 'Cristóbal Colón' left its base in Ferrol on January 9 and after forty-two days of transit, it arrived today at the Western RAN Base, near the city of Perth. During its transit to Australia, F-105 sailed through the Mediterranean Sea, where it collaborated with NATO's "Sea Guardian" operations against terrorism and "EUNAVFOR MED Sophia" of the European Union against human trafficking; crossed the Suez channel and sailed through the Red Sea; already in the Indian Ocean it collaborated with the European Union's "Atalanta" operation against piracy; it crossed the Gulf of Bengal and the Java Sea to finally arrive on the west coast of the Continental State. In addition to its participation in these operations, the "Cristóbal Colón" has carried out exercises combined with the marines of Italy, Saudi Arabia, India and Malaysia, and has made scales in the ports of Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Bombay (India) and Singapore, all of which receive a large number of technical and professional visits. The ship plans to stay in Rockinghan for a week to participate in the coordination meetings prior to the "Ocean Explorer 17" exercise.