HMAS Parramatta (DE 46)

Career (Australia (RAN))
Namesake:	The Parramatta River
Builder:	Cockatoo Island Dockyard
Laid down:	31 January 1957
Launched:	31 January 1959
Commissioned:	14 July 1961
Motto:	"Strike Deep"
Fate:	Broken up for scrap
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General characteristics
Class and type:	River class destroyer escort
Displacement:	2,750 tons full load
Length:	112.8 metres (370 ft)
Beam:	12.49 metres (41.0 ft)
Draught:	5.18 metres (17.0 ft)
Propulsion:	2 x English Electric steam turbines 2 shafts; 30,000 shp total
Speed:	31.9 knots (59.1 km/h)
Sensors and processing systems:	LW02 long range air warning radar 1979: Mulloka sonar system SPS-55 surface-search/navigation radar Mark 22 fire control radar
Armament:	Original: 2 x 4.5in Mark 6 guns 2 x Limbo Mark 10 anti-submarine mortar 1979 refit: 1 x quad Seacat SAM launcher 1 x Ikara ASW system 2 x Mark 32 torpedo tubes

HMAS Parramatta (F 05/DE 46), named for the Parramatta River, was a River class destroyer escort (a licence-built Type 12 frigate) of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Construction

Parramatta was laid down by Cockatoo Island Dockyard at Sydney, New South Wales on 31 January 1957. She was launched on 31 January 1959 by Lady Dowling, wife of the First Naval Member and Chief of Naval Staff, and commissioned into the RAN on 14 July 1961.

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.

Decommissioning and fate=

HMAS Parramatta paid off on 11 January 1991, was sold in August 1991 and broken up in Pakistan.

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