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30 September 1958
- The launching of Yarra (III) by Lady McBride, wife of the Minister for Defence on 30 September 1958. Yarra in Port Phillip with Voyager, Parramatta and Queenborough.
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Yarra in Port Phillip with Voyager, Parramatta and Queenborough. Yarra on sea trials during the early 1960s. A short refit at Williamstown in early 1962 was a prelude to service with the Far East Strategic Reserve between April and October, during which Yarra visited four Japanese ports plus Singapore, Hong Kong and Penang .
The third landing would occur at the Persian Gulf port of Bandar Shahpur where the Australian manned armed merchant cruiser HMAS Kanimbla would spearhead the capture of the port and sheltering Axis shipping. Yarra sailed from Karachi for service in the Persian Gulf on 12 April 1941 with a ship's company of nine officers and 129 ratings.
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.
- Keightley, StewartBurrows, William
- RAN personnel; 1 MID; RN personnel; 2 MID
- First World War, 1914-1918
- Bitapaka
Both ships were commissioned into the Royal Navy on 19 September 1910 and sailed for Australia, arriving at Port Phillip on 10 December 1910. The event was marred by the death of Engineer Lieutenant W. Robertson, RN, who suffered a heart attack 8 miles (13 km) outside Port Phillip Heads whilst onboard HMAS Yarra, and drowned.
YARRA departed Sydney on 23 August 1982 for a South East Asian deployment in company with HMAS SWAN. After port visits to Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang and Jakarta, YARRA underwent a 2-week Self Maintenance Period at HMAS STIRLING before participating in Exercise SANDGROPER 82 with other fleet units.
Oct 7, 2012 · She arrived at Aden in September 1940 and for the next seven months operated in the Red Sea and around the Horn of Africa. Yarra was mainly employed on convoy escort duties protecting British vessels from attacks from the Italian forces based in nearby Italian Somaliland.
For three weeks, until Tobruk was relieved on 8 December by the British 8th Army after a siege of 242 days, Yarra (II) was almost constantly at sea between Alexandria and the beleaguered port. The weather was often wild and the enemy always active.
