HMAS Stalwart (H14)

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Career (Royal Australian Navy)

Name:	HMAS Stalwart (H14)
Builder:	Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited
Laid down:	April 1918
Launched:	23 October 1918
Completed:	1919
Commissioned:	27 January 1920
Decommissioned:	1 December 1925
Fate:	Sold for scrap on 4 June 1937
General characteristics
Class and type:	Admiralty S class destroyer
Armament:	3 x 4-inch guns, 4 x 21-inch torpedo tubes

HMAS Stalwart (H14) was an Admiralty S class destroyer laid down by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited of Wallsend-on-Tyne in April 1918, launched on 23 October 1918, completed in 1919, and transferred to the Royal Australian Navy at Devonport on 27 January 1920. Despite being built on the orders of the Admiralty for British service, Stalwart was never commissioned in the Royal Navy.

Stalwart was at one stage to be renamed Darwin, but this never eventuated. Stalwart spent the majority of RAN service life in port and on the east coast of Australia.

Stalwart paid off to reserve on 1 December 1925 and was sold for scrap on 4 June 1937 to Penguins Ltd. The hulk of Stalwart was sunk outside Sydney Heads in 1937, after being filled with 300 tons of rotten onions.^{[citation needed]}