HMAS YARRA, (destroyer escort), located the disabled yacht MARQUEEN in heavy seas off the Queensland coast. The yacht was towed to Trial Bay, NSW. ...
HMAS Yarra III
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Australian Naval History on 26 August 1969
HMA Ships HOBART, VENDETTA, ANZAC, DERWENT, YARRA, CURLEW, HAWK, and GULL, searched for survivors from MV NOONGAH, which foundered in heavy seas off Smoky Cape. Five of the ship’s crew ...
Australian Naval History on 4 August 1965
HMAS Yarra (III), commenced operations around West Malaysia as part of the Indonesian Confrontation conflict. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 January 1964
Seacat missile systems were fitted in HMA Ships PARRAMATTA, YARRA, STUART, and DERWENT, (destroyer escorts). ...
Australian Naval History on 20 April 1962
HMAS Parramatta joined her sister ship Yarra deploying to the Far East where the two ships relieved HMA Ships Quickmatch and Vampire in the Britsh Commonwealth Strategic Reserve. During that ...
Australian Naval History on 27 July 1961
The River class destroyer escort, (ex-type 12 frigate), HMAS YARRA, (CMDR J. L. W. Merson, RAN), was commissioned. YARRA was laid down in Williamstown Dockyard, VIC on 9 April 1957, ...