HMAS Derwent
Two ships of the
Royal Australian Navy have been named for the Derwent River in
Tasmania which rises in Lake St. Clair and flows into the sea at Storm Bay.
The first
HMAS Derwent (F-22/49) was a River class destroyer escort laid down by the Williamstown Naval Dockyard at
Melbourne in
Victoria on
17 June 1959, launched on
17 April 1961 and commissioned on
23 April 1964.
HMAS Derwent paid off on
8 August 1994 and was sunk after being used for trials off
Western Australia.
The second
HMAS Derwent is a Huon class minehunter.