HMAS Napier

HMAS Napier (G-97/D-13) was an N class destroyer laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, at Govan in Scotland on 26 July 1939, launched on 22 May 1940 and commissioned on 11 December 1940. She was manned by Australians and commissioned in the Royal Australian Navy but remained the property of the British Government. HMAS Napier reverted to the Royal Navy on 25 October 1945.