HMAS Yarra (DE 45)
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| Namesake: | The Yarra River |
| Builder: | Williamstown Naval Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 9 April 1957 |
| Launched: | 30 September 1958 |
| Commissioned: | 27 July 1961 |
| Decommissioned: | 22 November 1985 |
| Motto: | "Hunt and Strike" |
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| Fate: | Broken up for scrap |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | River class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 2,750 tons full load |
| Length: | 112.8 m (370 ft) |
| Beam: | 12.49 m (41.0 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.18 m (17.0 ft) |
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| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Complement: | 250 |
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| Notes: | Taken from:[1] |
HMAS Yarra (F07/DE 45), named for the Yarra River, was a River class destroyer escort of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).[1] The antisubmarine warship operated from 1961 to 1985.
Construction
Yarra was laid down by the Williamstown Naval Dockyard at Melbourne, Victoria on 9 April 1957.[1] An enhanced derivative of the Royal Navy's Type 12 frigate, Yarra was one of four ships constructed to provide an antisubmarine warfare capability for the RAN.[2] She was launched on 30 September 1958 by Lady McBride, wife of the Minister for Defence, and commissioned into the RAN on 27 July 1961.[1]
Operational history
Yarra operated during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation; during a three-week patrol in June 1965, the ship fired on an Indonesian incursion force near Sabah.[3] The ship's service was later recognised with the battle honour "Malaysia 1964–66".[4][5]
In 1983, Yarra was accompanied by the patrol boats Warrnambool and Ipswich on a deployment to South-East Asia for the multinational Exercise Starfish.[6]
Decommissioning and fate
Yarra paid off 22 November 1985.[1] She was sold for scrap.
Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 HMAS Yarra (III), Royal Australian Navy
- ↑ Cooper, in Stevens, The Royal Australian Navy, p. 189
- ↑ Cooper, in Stevens, The Royal Australian Navy, p. 199
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- ↑ Jones, in Stevens, The Royal Australian Navy, p. 259
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