HMAS Manoora

Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Manoora:

• HMAS Manoora (F48), a passenger liner launched in 1934, requisitioned by the RAN in 1939 for use as an armed merchant cruiser and later a landing ship, and returned to her owners in 1949
• HMAS Manoora (L 52), an amphibious transport ship acquired from the United States in 1994 and decommissioned in 2011

Battle honours

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

• Indian Ocean 1941–42
• Pacific 1942–45
• New Guinea 1944
• Leyte Gulf 1944
• Lingayen Gulf 1945
• Borneo 1945
• Persian Gulf 2002

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