HMAS Warramunga (I44)

HMAS Warramunga in 1946
History
Australia
Namesake	The Warumungu people of Central Australia
Builder	Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company
Laid down	10 February 1940
Launched	7 February 1942
Commissioned	23 November 1942
Decommissioned	7 December 1959
Identification	Pennant number: I44 (later D123)
Motto	Courage in Difficulties
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Pacific 1943–45 New Guinea 1943–44 Leyte Gulf 1944 Lingayen Gulf 1945 Borneo 1945 Korea 1950–52
Fate	Sold for scrap on 15 February 1963
General characteristics
Class and type	Tribal-class destroyer
Displacement	2,031 tons
Length	377 ft (115 m) length overall 355 ft (108 m) between perpendiculars
Beam	36.5 ft (11.1 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion	3 × drum boilers, Parsons impulse-reaction turbines, 44,000 shp (33,000 kW), 2 shafts
Speed	36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph)
Range	1,030 nautical miles (1,910 km; 1,190 mi) at 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) 2,840 nautical miles (5,260 km; 3,270 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	7 officers, 190 sailors
Armament	At launch: 6 × 4.7-inch Mark XII guns (3 twin turrets) 2 × 4-inch Mark XVI* guns (1 twin turret) 1 × quad-barrelled 2-pounder Mark VIII pom pom 6 × 20 mm Oerlikons 1 × quadruple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tube set 1 × depth charge rail

HMAS Warramunga (I44/D123) was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built during World War II, the destroyer entered service in late 1942. She was initially assigned to convoy escort duties, but was assigned to the joint Australian-American Task Force 74 in 1943, and was involved in supporting numerous amphibious landings through the South-east Asian region until the end of the war. From 1950 and 1952, Warramunga fought in the Korean War, then was converted into an anti-submarine destroyer. Returning to service in 1954, the destroyer was one of the first RAN ships to operate with the Far East Strategic Reserve, and undertook two tours with the organisation before she was decommissioned in 1959 and sold for ship breaking in 1963.