HMAS Parramatta (DE 46)
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| Career (Australia) |  |
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| Builder: | Cockatoo Island Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 31 January 1957 |
| Launched: | 31 January 1959 |
| Commissioned: | 14 July 1961 |
| Struck: | August 1991 |
| Motto: | "Strike Deep" |
| Fate: | Broken up for scrap |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,560 tons |
| Length: | 113m |
| Beam: | 12.49m |
| Draught: | 5.18m |
| Propulsion: | 2 x English Electric steam turbines 2 shaft; 30,000shp |
| Speed: | 31.9 knots |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
1979: Mulloka sonar system AN/SPS-55 surface-search/navigation radar |
| Armament: | 2x 4.5in Mk6 gun 2x Limbo Mk10 AS mortar re-fitted 1x quad Seacat SAM launcher 1x Ikara ASW system 2x Mark 32 torpedo tubes - 1979 |
The third HMAS Parramatta (F 05/DE 46) was a River class destroyer escort (a licence-built Type 12 frigate) laid down by the Cockatoo Island Dockyard at Sydney in New South Wales on 31 January 1957, launched on 31 January 1959 by Lady Dowling, wife of the First Naval Member and Chief of Naval Staff, and commissioned on 14 July 1961 under the command of Commander G. R. Griffiths DSC RAN.
[edit] Operational History
Parramatta escorted Royal Yacht Britannia during the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in 1963, served on patrol duties during the Indonesian Confrontation, escorted the fast troop transport HMAS Sydney to Vietnam, underwent a modernisation refit at Williamstown Naval Dockyard between 3 June 1977 and 26 August 1981, and visited the People's Republic of China in 1986.
HMAS Parramatta paid off on 11 January 1991, was sold in August 1991 and broken up in Pakistan.
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