HMAS Swan#Battle honours

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Three ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Swan, for the Swan River in Western Australia.

  • {{HMAS|Swan|D61}}, a River-class destroyer launched in 1915, decommissioned in 1928, and broken up for scrap
  • {{HMAS|Swan|U74}}, a Grimsby-class sloop launched in 1936, decommissioned in 1962, and broken up for scrap
  • {{HMAS|Swan|DE 50}}, a River-class destroyer escort launched in 1967, decommissioned in 1996, and scuttled as a dive wreck in 1997

Battle honours

Ships named HMAS Swan are entitled to carry four battle honours:{{cite news |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/Navy_Marks_109th_Birthday_With_Historic_Changes_To_Battle_Honours |title=Navy Marks 109th Birthday With Historic Changes To Battle Honours |date=1 March 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613184920/http://www.navy.gov.au/Navy_Marks_109th_Birthday_With_Historic_Changes_To_Battle_Honours |archivedate=13 June 2011 |publisher=Royal Australian Navy |accessdate=23 December 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/w/images/Units_entitlement_list.pdf |title=Royal Australian Navy Ship/Unit Battle Honours |date=1 March 2010 |publisher=Royal Australian Navy |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614064156/http://www.navy.gov.au/w/images/Units_entitlement_list.pdf |archivedate=14 June 2011 |accessdate=23 December 2012}}

See also

  • {{HMS|Swan}}, twenty ships of the Royal Navy.
  • {{USS|Swan}}, three ships of the United States Navy.

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