Decommissioning and Fate
Yarra was decommissioned on 22 November 1985. There were plans to keep her in service as a training vessel, but the decision was to keep HMAS Vampire active in this role, and Yarra was placed in reserve. The other ships of the class were decommissioned during the 1990s.
Derwent was sunk during explosives testing in 1994. Swan was scuttled as an artificial reef in 1997. Torrens was torpedoed by the Collins class submarine Farncomb during a weapons test in 1999. The other three ships were broken up for scrap.
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