HMAS Yarra (F-07/DE-45)

See also HMAS Yarra for other ships that bear this name

Career Australia	<tr valign=top><td>Builder:</td><td>Williamstown Naval Dockyard</td></tr>

Laid down:	9 April 1957
Launched:	30 September 1958 <tr valign=top><td>Commissioned:</td><td>27 July 1961</td></tr>
Status:	Broken up <tr valign=top><td>Homeport:</td><td>Sydney</td></tr>
General Characteristics
Displacement:	2,560 tons
Length:	113m
Beam:	12.49m <tr valign=top><td>Draught:</td><td>5.18m</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Propulsion:</td><td>2 x English Electric steam turbines 2 shaft; 30,000shp</td></tr>
Speed:	31.9 knots
Complement:	<tr valign=top><td>Sensors and processing systems:</td><td>1979: Mulloka sonar system SPS-55 surface-search/navigation radar</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Armament:</td><td>2x 4.5in Mk6 gun 2x Limbo Mk10 AS mortar re-fitted 1x quad Seacat SAM launcher 1x Ikara ASW system 2x Mark 32 torpedo tubes - 1979</td></tr>

The third HMAS Yarra was a River class destroyer escort laid down by the Williamstown Naval Dockyard at Melbourne, Victoria 9 April 1957, launched 30 September 1958 by Lady McBride, wife of the Minister for Defence and commissioned on 27 July 1961. HMAS Yarra paid off 22 November 1985.

"River" class destroyer escort

Type 12

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