HMAS Yarra (F07/DE 45), named for the Yarra River, was a River-class destroyer escort of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).^[1] The antisubmarine warship operated from 1961 to 1985.

Yarra was laid down by the Williamstown Naval Dockyard at Melbourne, Victoria on 9 April 1957.^[1] An enhanced derivative of the Royal Navy's Type 12 frigate, Yarra was one of four ships constructed to provide an anti-submarine warfare capability for the RAN.^[2] She was launched on 30 September 1958 by Lady McBride, wife of the Minister for Defence and commissioned into the RAN on 27 July 1961.^[1]

Yarra operated during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation; during a three-week patrol in June 1965, the ship fired on an Indonesian incursion force near Sabah.^[3] The ship's service was later recognised with the battle honour "Malaysia 1964–66".^[4][5]

In 1983, Yarra was accompanied by the patrol boats Warrnambool and Ipswich on a deployment to South-East Asia for the multinational Exercise Starfish.^[6]

Yarra paid off 22 November 1985.^[1] She was sold for scrap.

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