HMAS Kanimbla

Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Kanimbla, for the Kanimbla Valley in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales:

• HMAS Kanimbla (1936), a passenger liner converted to a armed merchant cruiser for the Royal Navy, then later converted to a troopship and used by the Royal Australian Navy from 1943 to 1949.
• HMAS Kanimbla (L 51), an amphibious transport ship acquired from the United States in 1994 and decommissioned in 2011

Battle honours

Ships named HMAS Kanimbla are entitled to carry seven battle honours:^[1][2]

• New Guinea 1944
• Leyte Gulf 1944
• Lingayen Gulf 1945
• Borneo 1945
• Pacific 1945
• Persian Gulf 2001–03
• Iraq 2003

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