| HMAS Yarra (DE 45) | |
|---|---|
| Career (Australia) |  |
| 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" |
| Honours and awards: |
Battle honours: Malaysia 1964–66 Plus four inherited honours |
| Fate: | Broken up for scrap |
| Badge: | Ship's 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) |
| Propulsion: |
2 x English Electric steam turbines 2 shafts; 30,000 shp total |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Complement: | 250 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
LW-02 long range air warning radar 1979: Mulloka sonar system SPS-55 surface-search/navigation radar Mark 22 fire control radar |
| Armament: |
Original: 2 x 4.5-inch (110 mm) Mk 6 guns 2 x Limbo Mk 10 anti-submarine mortars (both later removed) 2 x 40-millimetre (1.6 in) Bofors (later removed) 1979 refit: 1 x quad Seacat SAM launcher 1 x Ikara ASW system |
| 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
- ↑ "Navy Marks 109th Birthday With Historic Changes To Battle Honours". Royal Australian Navy. 1 March 2010. Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110613184920/http://www.navy.gov.au/Navy_Marks_109th_Birthday_With_Historic_Changes_To_Battle_Honours. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
- ↑ "Royal Australian Navy Ship/Unit Battle Honours". Royal Australian Navy. 1 March 2010. Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110614064156/http://www.navy.gov.au/w/images/Units_entitlement_list.pdf. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
- ↑ Jones, in Stevens, The Royal Australian Navy, p. 259
References[]
- "HMAS Yarra (III)". Royal Australian Navy. Archived from the original on 4 March 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090304175754/http://www.navy.gov.au/HMAS_Yarra_(III). Retrieved 28 October 2009.
- Stevens, David, ed (2001). The Royal Australian Navy. The Australian Centenary History of Defence (vol III). South Melbourne, VIC: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-555542-2. OCLC 50418095.
- Cooper, Alastair. "The Era of Forward Defence (pp. 181–210)". The Royal Australian Navy.
- Jones, Peter. "Towards Self Reliance (pp. 211–238)". The Royal Australian Navy.
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