HMAS_Parramatta
HMAS Parramatta
List of ships with the same or similar names
Four ships of the Royal Australian Navy been named HMAS Parramatta, for the Parramatta River. The name comes from the Barramattagal people (burra meaning eel and matta meaning creek).
- HMAS Parramatta (D55), a River-class destroyer commissioned in 1910, paid off in 1928, and sold for scrap
- HMAS Parramatta (U44), a Grimsby-class sloop commissioned in 1939, and sunk by U-559 off Tobruk on 27 November 1941
- HMAS Parramatta (DE 46), a River-class destroyer escort commissioned in 1961 and decommissioned in 1991
- HMAS Parramatta (FFH 154), an Anzac-class frigate commissioned in 2003 and active as of 2016