HMAS Culgoa

HMAS Culgoa (K-408/F-408/A-256), named for the Culgoa River, a continuation of the Balonne River in southern Queensland which flows south-west to join the Darling River near Bourke in New South Wales, was a Bay class frigate laid down as Murray (but renamed to avoid confusion with HMS Murray) by the Naval Dockyard at Williamstown in Victoria on 15 July 1943, launched on 22 September 1945 by Mrs. H. A. Showers, wife of the Second Naval Member of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board and completed on 24 December 1946 and placed into reserve but commissioned on 1 April 1947. HMAS Culgoa paid of into reserve on 15 April 1954, was sold for scrap to N. W. Kennedy Limited of Vancouver in Canada on 15 February 1972 and left Sydney under tow for Taiwan in March 1972.