River class torpedo boat destroyer

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HMAS Torrens

Five of the RAN's River class torpedo boat destroyers with a British destroyer at Brindisi, Italy in 1917

The River class was to a class of torpedo boat destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy built just prior to World War I. All six ships of the class were named after famous Australian rivers (one from each state), starting a tradition in the RAN of naming ships after the rivers of Australia. The first three ships - Parramatta, Warrego and Yarra - were initially ordered for the British Royal Navy as Acheron-class vessels, but transferred to the RAN before completion and replaced by three new orders for the RN. Australian yards produced the remaining three ships.

[edit] Ships

• HMAS Huon
• HMAS Parramatta
• HMAS Swan
• HMAS Torrens
• HMAS Warrego
• HMAS Yarra

[edit] River class Statistics

• Displacement: 700 tons (standard)
• Length: 246 feet
• Beam: 24 feet 6 inches
• Draught: 8 feet
• Speed: 26 knots
• Complement: 66
• Propulsion: Parsons turbines
• Armament: 1 x 4 in QF gun; 3 x 12pdr QF guns; 3 x 18 in torpedo tubes

[edit] See also

• Acheron-class for Royal Navy ships of this type.
• River-class for a post-World War II class of RAN ships.

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