2,990 nautical miles (5,540 km; 3,440 mi) at 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Complement
6 officers, 93 sailors
Armament
3 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mk IV guns
1 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) pom-pom AA guns
2 × 9.5-inch howitzers
5 × .303-inch machine guns
2 × twin 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tube sets
2 depth charge throwers
4 depth charge chutes
HMAS Swordsman (H11) was an Admiralty S-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built for the Royal Navy during World War I, the ship was not completed until 1919, and was transferred to the RAN at the start of 1920. The destroyer's career was uneventful, with most of it spent moored in Sydney. Swordsman was decommissioned in 1929, and scuttled off Sydney in 1939.[1]
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disappeared. The SS Amelia J, a schooner, disappeared on 10 September 1920. HMASSwordsman was commissioned to search for the ship, and while searching the Bass...
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1932. Her engines were sold in 1940. Part of her machinery was fitted into HMAS Uralba. Her hull was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy in 1942 and...
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