HMAS Barcoo

HMAS Barcoo (K-375/F-375/A-245), named for the Barcoo River in Queensland, which rises on the northern slopes of the Warrego Range and forms Cooper Creek was a River class frigate laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 21 October 1942, launched on 26 August 1943 by Mrs. R. V. Keane, wife of the Minister for Trade and Customs and commissioned at Sydney on 17 January 1944. Barcoo paid off on 25 September 1956 but re-commissioned as a survey vessel on 7 December 1959. HMAS Barcoo paid off on 21 February 1964 and was sold for scrap to N. W. Kennedy Limited of Vancouver in Canada on 15 February 1972.