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The first HMAS Swan (D-61) was a River class torpedo boat destroyer laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Propriety Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 22 January 1913, launched on 11 December 1915 by Lady Creswell, wife of Sir William Rooke Creswell, the First Naval Member of the Commonwealth Naval Board and commissioned on 16 August 1916. HMAS Swan paid off for disposal at Sydney on 15 May 1928 and was broken up for scrap at Cockatoo Dockyard in 1930.
