Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named for the Derwent River in Tasmania which rises in Lake St. Clair and flows into the sea at Storm Bay. The first HMAS Derwent (F-22/49) was a River class destroyer escort laid down by the Williamstown Naval Dockyard at Melbourne in Victoria on 17 June 1959, launched on 17 April 1961 and commissioned on 23 April 1964. HMAS Derwent paid off on 8 August 1994 and was sunk after being used for trials off Western Australia. The second HMAS Derwent is a Huon class minehunter. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.