HMAS Yarra (DE 45)

History
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
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General characteristics
Class and 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 × 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 × 4.5-inch (110 mm) Mk 6 guns 2 × Limbo Mk 10 anti-submarine mortars (both later removed) 2 × 40-millimetre (1.6 in) Bofors (later removed) 1979 refit: 1 × quad Seacat SAM launcher 1 × Ikara ASW system
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HMAS Yarra (F07/DE 45), named for the Yarra River, was a River class destroyer escort of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The antisubmarine warship operated from 1961 to 1985.

Yarra was laid down by the Williamstown Naval Dockyard at Melbourne, Victoria on 9 April 1957. 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. 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.

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. The ship's service was later recognised with the battle honour "Malaysia 1964–66".

In 1983, Yarra was accompanied by the patrol boats Warrnambool and Ipswich on a deployment to South-East Asia for the multinational Exercise Starfish.

Yarra paid off 22 November 1985. She was sold for scrap.

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