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HMAS Torrens (D67)
HMAS ''Torrens'', named for the River Torrens, was a of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The destroyer was built at Cockatoo Island Dockyard and entered service with the RAN in 1916. The destroyer was first deployed to East Asia, then the Mediterranean, where she remained for the rest of World War I. After returning to Australia, the destroyer was decommissioned, but saw use in several ports for reservist training before the decision to sell her for scrap was made. After being stripped, the destroyer was towed outside Sydney Heads, used for gunnery practice, and scuttled.
==Design and construction==
(詳細はlong overall and long between perpendiculars, and had a beam of .〔 Propulsion machinery consisted of three Yarrow boilers feeding Parsons turbines, which supplied to the ship's three propeller shafts.〔Cassells, ''The Destroyers'', p. 139〕 Its maximum speed was , and maximum range was at .〔Cassells, ''The Destroyers'', pp. 138–9〕 The ship's company consisted of 5 officers and 68 sailors.〔
The destroyer's main armament consisted of a BL 4-inch Mark VIII gun, and three QF 12-pounder 12 cwt guns.〔 This was supplemented by three single 18-inch torpedo tubes and three .303-inch machine guns.〔 Later in the ship's career, two depth charge throwers and four depth charge chutes were installed.〔
''Torrens'' was laid down by Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company at Cockatoo Island, New South Wales on 25 January 1913.〔 She was launched on 28 August 1915 by the wife of Lord Munro Ferguson, the Governor-General of Australia.〔 The destroyer was commissioned into the RAN on 3 July 1916, twelve days before construction completed.〔 The ship's name comes from the River Torrens in South Australia.〔
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