HMAS Swan (DE-50)

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Career Australia

Builder:	Williamstown Dockyard
Laid down:	16 February 1965
Launched:	16 December 1967
Commissioned:	20 January 1970
Struck:	14 December 1997
Status:	Sunk as dive wreck
Homeport:	Sydney
General Characteristics
Displacement:	2,700 tons
Length:	107m
Beam:	12.49m
Draught:	4.57m
Propulsion:	2 x English Electric steam turbines 2 shaft; 30,000shp
Speed:	30 knots
Complement:
Sensors and processing systems:	1979: Mulloka sonar system SPS-55 surface-search/navigation radar
Armament:	2x 4.5in Mk6 gun 1x Limbo Mk10 AS mortar 1x quad Seacat SAM launcher 1x Ikara ASW system 2x Mark 32 torpedo tubes - 1979

The third HMAS Swan (DE-50) was a "River" class frigate laid down by the Williamstown Dockyard at Melbourne in Victoria on 16 February 1965, launched on 16 December 1967 and commissioned on 20 January 1970.

HMAS Swan paid off on 13 September 1996 and was scuttled as a dive wreck off Dunsborough in Western Australia on 14 December 1997.

[edit] Wreck

HMAS Swan is a dive wreck and an artificial reef. The scuttling was organised by GBARS (Geographe Bay Artificial Reef Society).

Swan now sits 31 metres down on a previously uninhabited area of sandy seabed 1.3 nautical miles off Point Picquet. She is now thriving and home to over 100 different species of marine life including Batfish and Samson fish.