HMAS Parramatta (D55)
HMAS PARRAMATTA (D55).
With a displacement of 750 tons, HMAS Parramatta had an overall length of 246 feet (75 m), and a beam of 24 feet 3.75 inches (7.4105 m).
HMAS Parramatta was paid off from service on 20 April 1928 and handed over to the Cockatoo Island Dockyard for dismantling.
On 2 February 1934, Parramatta and Swan were being towed down the Hawkesbury River for final breaking in Sydney, when gale conditions caused both hulls to break their tows; Swan foundered and sank, while Parramatta ran aground in mangroves opposite Milson Island.
In 1973, the bow and stern sections of Parramatta were salvaged, with the stern established as a memorial on the south bank of the Parramatta River in Parramatta, New South Wales, and the bow later placed outside the Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre, at the northern tip of the naval base at Garden Island, New South Wales, Australia.
HMAS Parramatta (D55)
HMAS PARRAMATTA (D55).
With a displacement of 750 tons, HMAS Parramatta had an overall length of 246 feet (75 m), and a beam of 24 feet 3.75 inches (7.4105 m).
HMAS Parramatta was paid off from service on 20 April 1928 and handed over to the Cockatoo Island Dockyard for dismantling.
On 2 February 1934, Parramatta and Swan were being towed down the Hawkesbury River for final breaking in Sydney, when gale conditions caused both hulls to break their tows; Swan foundered and sank, while Parramatta ran aground in mangroves opposite Milson Island.
In 1973, the bow and stern sections of Parramatta were salvaged, with the stern established as a memorial on the south bank of the Parramatta River in Parramatta, New South Wales, and the bow later placed outside the Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre, at the northern tip of the naval base at Garden Island, New South Wales, Australia.