Royal Australian Navy 19 ship classes documented with 27 vessel captures
Amphibious Assault Ships
Canberra Class Landing Helicopter Dock LOA 758′ TDISP 27,000 tons (2 active)
HMAS Canberra L02 (2014)
HMAS Canberra and USS America LHA-06, RIMPAC 2016US Navy 2749787 Australian Defence Force photo by LSIS Helen Frank
HMAS Adelaide L01 (2015) fitting out
HMAS Adelaide during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2019 US Navy 5571513 PO2 Anaid Banuelos Rodriguez
Destroyers
Hobart Class DDG LOA 483′ TDISP 7,000 tons (2, 1 building)
HMAS Hobart DDG-39, Pearl Harbor 2018 US Navy 4750129 PO2 Charles Oki
Perth Class DDG (modified USN Charles F. Adams Class) LOA 440′ TDISP 4,600 tons (3, all retired and sunk as dive wrecks)
HMAS Hobart D-39 (1965 – 2000) laid up at Port Adelaide, sunk as dive wreck 2002 Yankalilla Bay
HMAS Hobart ca. 1967 in the Gulf of Tonkin, during Vietnam service Australian War Memorial NAVY13892
Daring Class LOA 389′ TDISP 3,500 tons (3 built for RAN, 8 for RN, all retired, 1 lost, 1 preserved)
HMS Daring on exercises in the Mediterranean in 1953 © IWM (A 32788)
HMAS Vampire D-11 (1959 – 1986), museum ship Sydney NSW Australia
HMAS Vampire D-11 ca. 1959 © Australian War Memorial 301609 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/
Frigates
Anzac Class FFG LOA 387′ TDISP 3,600 tons (10 active)
HMAS Ballarat FFH-155 (2004)
HMAS Ballarat during ASW exercises in Arabian Sea Dec. 2018 US Navy 4987006 PO1 Ryan D. McLearnon
Adelaide Class FFG LOA 455′ TDISP 4,100 tons (same basic design as USN Oliver Hazard Perry Class) (6, in service 1980 – 2019, all now retired)
Aerial bow view of the HMAS DARWIN (F-04) underway, 1984. This frigate was built for Australia by Todd Pacific Shipyard Corp. NARA: 330-CFD-DN-SN-84-10555 Todd Pacific Shipyard Corp.
River Class LOA 301′ TDISP 2,000 tons (151 built and service with many navies, about 12 served with the RAN)
HMAS Diamantina K-377 (1945 – 1980) preserved as Museum Ship Queensland Maritime Museum
HMAS Diamantina K-377 decommissioning in 1946 State Library of Victoria H91.250/144 Allan C. Green 1878-1954 photographer. [Public domain]
Corvettes
Bathurst Class LOA 186′ TDISP 1,025 tons (60 built, 5 lost in action, 2 preserved) designed as minesweepers
HMAS Castlemaine J-244 (1942) decommissioned to training ship 1945, Museum ship 1973
HMAS Castlemaine J-244 returning from convoy escort work Sep. 1942 Port Moresby Australian War Memorial 026613
HMAS Whyalla J-153 (1942) land monument at Whyalla, South Australia decommissioned 1946. Museum ship since 1984
Photo taken and supplied by Brian Voon Yee Yap en:User:Yewenyi [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)%5D
Patrol Vessels
Armidale Class LOA 186′ TDISP 300 tons (14 built, 1 heavily damaged by fire and decommissioned)
HMAS Bathurst during Talisman Sabre 2017 US Navy 3603535 PO3 Jonathan Clay
Freemantle Class LOA 137′ TDISP 220 tons (15, 13 scrapped 2 preserved)
HMAS Towsnville FCPB-205 (1981 – 2007)
HMAS Townsville and USN frigate USS Robert E. Peary 1989 NARA: 330-CFD-DN-ST-90-08224 JO1 Lee Bosco
HMAS Gladstone FCPB-215 (1884 – 2007)
Attack Class LOA 107′ TDISP 146 tons
HMAS Advance P-83 (1968 – 1988) museum ship at National Australian Maritime Museum, Sydney (20 built, some transferred to Indonesian Navy, rest retired)
Minesweepers / Minehunters
Huon Class LOA 172′ TDISP 732 tons 1994 – present (6, 4 active)
Ton Class LOA 152′ TDISP 440 tons (119 built, very few still in existence, 6 served with RAN – 2 remain)
HMAS Curlew M-1121 (1962 – 1991) previously HMS Chediston (1953 – 1961)
A sailor from HMAS Derwent fires a line across to HMAS Curlew M-1121 ca. 1965 Australian War Memorial NAVY06862
HMAS Teal M-1152 (1962 – 1970) previously HMS Jackton (1955 – 1961) currently University of Kyrenia (Cyprus) training vessel, extensively rebuilt
Landing Ships
HMAS Choules, L-100 Bay Class LOA 579′ TDISP 16,200 tons 2011-present. Previously Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel Largs Bay (2006 – 2011)
HMAS Choules during Exercise Talisman Saber 2017 [Detail of] US Navy 3592917 PO2 Sarah Myers
HMAS Tobruk L-50 modified Round-table class Landing Ship Heavy (1981 – 2015) LOA 417′ TDISP 5,700 tons
Kanimbla class Landing Ship Dock modified USN Newport class LST LOA 522′ TDISP 8,500 tons (2 served in RAN)
HMAS Kanimbla L-51 and HMAS Manoora L-52 (1994 – 2011) previously USS Saginaw and USS Fairfax County (1971 – 1994)
Note modifications include the removal of the prominent bow derrick and ramp.
Replenishment / Resupply
HMAS Sirius O-266 (2006 – present) LOA 648′ TDISP 46,750 tons full load
HMAS Success OR-304 (1986 – 2019) Durance Class fleet oiler LOA 516′ TDISP 18,200 tons full load
Hydrographic Survey
Leeuwin class survey vessel LOA 234′ TDISP 2,170 tons (2 active)
HMAS Melville assists in recovery efforts on a lost USN MV-22 Osprey, Coral Sea Aug. 2017 US Navy 3661332 PO2 Diana Quinlan
HMAS Leeuwin A-245 (2000)
