Ships
| Name | Builder | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMAS Parramatta (DE 46) | Cockatoo Island Shipyard, Sydney | 31 January 1959 | 14 July 1961 | 11 November 1991 | Broken Up |
| HMAS Yarra (DE 45) | Williamstown Naval Dockyard, Melbourne | 30 September 1958 | 27 July 1961 | 22 November 1985 | Broken Up |
| HMAS Stuart (DE 48) | Cockatoo Island | 8 April 1961 | 28 June 1963 | 26 July 1991 | Broken Up |
| HMAS Derwent (DE 49) | Williamstown Naval Dockyard | 17 April 1961 | 30 April 1964 | 8 August 1994 | Sunk during explosives test |
| HMAS Swan (DE 50) | Williamstown Naval Dockyard | 16 December 1967 | 20 January 1970 | 13 September 1996 | Sunk as artificial reef |
| HMAS Torrens (DE 53) | Cockatoo Island | 28 September 1968 | 19 January 1971 | 1998 | Sunk as target |
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Famous quotes containing the word ships:
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
“The northern sky rose high and black
Over the proud unfruitful sea,
East and west the ships came back
Happily or unhappily....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.”
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)