HMAS Murchison

HMAS Murchison (K-442/F-442), named for the Murchison River in Western Australia which rises in the Robinson Range and flows into the Indian Ocean at Gantheaume Bay, was a Bay class frigate laid down by Evans Deakin and Company Limited at Brisbane in Queensland, launched on 31 October 1944 and commissioned on 17 December 1945. HMAS Murchison paid off on 31 January 1956 and was sold on 21 September 1961.