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HMAS Arunta (I30)

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The first HMAS Arunta '''HMAS ''Arunta''''' (D-130/I-30) was a Tribal class destroyer ''Tribal'' class destroyer, laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 15 November 1939, launched on 30 November 1940, and commissioned on 30 March 1942. ''Arunta'' attacked and sank the enemy Japanese submarine ''RO-33'' off New Guinea on 24 August 1942, and participated in the landings at Lingayen Gulf in January 1945 where she was damaged by enemy Japanese kamikaze aircraft and at Balikpapan in Borneo in July 1945. ''Arunta'' paid off to reserve on 21 December 1956, was sold for scrap to the China Steel Corporation of Taipei in Taiwan Formosa on 1 November 1968, and sank under tow 65 miles off the New South Wales coast on 13 February 1969. See HMAS Arunta HMAS ''Arunta'' for other ships of this name. {{Tribal class destroyer (1936)}} Category:Tribal class destroyers Arunta Category:Royal Australian Navy ships Arunta