HMAS Huon (D50)

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Career (Royal Australian Navy)
HMAS Huon during her trials in December 1915
Namesake:	Huon River
Builder:	Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company
Laid down:	25 January 1913
Launched:	19 December 1914
Completed:	2 February 1916
Commissioned:	14 December 1915
Decommissioned:	9 August 1920
Recommissioned:	22 April 1921
Decommissioned:	2 June 1922
Recommissioned:	1924
Decommissioned:	7 June 1928
Renamed:	October 1915
Fate:	Sunk as target in 1931
General characteristics
Class and type:	River class torpedo boat destroyer

HMAS Huon (D50) was a River class torpedo boat destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

The ship was laid down as HMAS Derwent by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Propriety Limited at Cockatoo Island, Sydney in New South Wales on 25 January 1913, launched on 19 December 1914 by Mrs Jensen, wife of the Honourable J.A. Jensen, Minister without Portfolio. She was renamed in October 1915, commissioned on 14 December 1915, and completed on 2 February 1916.

Huon first served with the British Far East Patrol at Sandakan in Borneo and Singapore. She later operated in the Mediterranean as part of the British 5th Destroyer Flotilla. She collided with sister ship HMAS Yarra on 8 August 1918, and underwent repairs at Genoa.

Following the conclusion of World War I, Huon returned to Australia on 21 May 1919. She escorted HMS Renown for the visit of Prince Edward of Wales to South Australia in 1920, and paid off into Reserve at Sydney on 9 August 1920. She was recommissioned on 22 April 1921 and served in Australian waters until she again paid off into Reserve at Sydney on 2 June 1922. Huon was recommissioned and based at Hobart for Naval Reserve training from 22 September 1924 to 26 May 1928.