HMAS Yarra (D79), a River-class torpedo boat destroyer commissioned into the Australian Commonwealth Naval Forces in 1910, transferred to the RAN on its foundation in 1911, operated until 1929, and scuttled

HMAS Yarra (U77), named for the Yarra River, was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) that served during World War II. Commissioned in 1936, Yarra spent the early part of the war in Australian waters, then was transferred to the East Indies Station in 1940.

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.

HMAS Yarra (II) commissioned at Sydney on 21 January 1936 under the command of Captain George D Moore, RAN. From the time of her commissioning, up to the end of the first twelve months of World War II, Yarra (II) was employed on the Australian coast on patrol and escort duties and as a unit of the 20th Minesweeping Flotilla.

The Grimsby -class sloop HMAS Yarra served in the Mediterranean until early December 1941. After the Japanese attacks on British outposts in the Pacific, Yarra and other ships raced back to defend Australia. By the end of January 1942, the British had withdrawn from Malaya and were preparing to defend Singapore.

Yarra was the second vessel laid down for the Australian Commonwealth Naval Forces. Built in the United Kingdom and commissioned in September 1910, she reached Australia in November 1910, in the company of her sister ship HMAS Parramatta. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, Yarra took part in operations against the German Pacific ...

Among the continuing bad news of surrender, loss, death and destruction flooding the Australian press the story of the recovery of 13 survivors from the sloop HMAS Yarra (II), sunk on 4 March 1942, was a rare bright moment in a time bereft of good news.

2020年1月3日 · On 4 March 1942, HMAS Yarra was sunk by a Japanese cruiser squadron in a gallant but hopeless defence of her convoy in the Indian Ocean, south of Java. A total of 138 of her company were lost, including her commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Robert Rankin.

HMAS Yarra (III) was one of six Modified Type 12 frigates built in Australia between 1957 and 1971. Her sister ships were HMA Ships Parramatta (III), Derwent, Stuart (II), Swan (III) and Torrens (II).

2012年10月7日 · This action is the loss of HMAS Yarra on 4 March 1942, while defending a convoy south of Java, in what is now regarded by many as the finest action ever fought in Australian naval history. Triumph in the Middle East Yarra was a 1060 ton Grimsby class sloop constructed at Cockatoo Dockyard in 1936-37. When war came in 1939 she was under the ...