Two ships of the
Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS ''Australia''. A third ship was to receive the name, but her transfer from the
Royal Navy to the Royal Australian Navy was cancelled:
* The first , an launched in 1911, shortly after the formation of the
Royal Australian Navy, and sunk in 1924 in accordance with the terms of the
Washington Naval Treaty.
* The second , a
heavy cruiser launched in 1927 and broken up in 1956.
* The third HMAS ''Australia'' was intended to be renamed from the aircraft carrier , which the RAN intended to purchase in 1982. This sale was cancelled following the
Falklands War
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and the
1983 Australian federal election
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.
Battle honours
Ships named HMAS ''Australia'' are entitled to carry ten battle honours:
* Rabaul 1914
*
North Sea 1915–18
*
Atlantic 1940–41
*
Pacific 1941–43
*
Coral Sea
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1942
*
Savo Island 1942
*
Guadalcanal
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1942
*
New Guinea 1942–44
*
Leyte Gulf 1944
*
Lingayen Gulf
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1945
See also
* , an of the Royal Navy completed in 1888 and scrapped in 1905.
* ''
Empress of Australia
Three ships have borne the name ''Empress of Australia'':
* , a 21,560-ton ocean liner launched in 1913 by Vulcan AG shipyard in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) for the Hamburg America Line as SS ''Tirpitz''. She was taken as a war reparation in 1 ...
'', three passenger vessels of the name
References
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Royal Australian Navy ship names