HMAS Warrego (D70), named for the Warrego River, was a River class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Warrego was laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited at Govan in Scotland, then taken to pieces and the parts shipped out to Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney, where they were re-assembled. She was launched on 4 April 1911 and commissioned into the RAN on 1 June 1912.

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  • HMAS Warrego (D70), named for the Warrego River, was a River class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Warrego was laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited at Govan in Scotland, then taken to pieces and the parts shipped out to Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney, where they were re-assembled. She was launched on 4 April 1911 and commissioned into the RAN on 1 June 1912. Warrego operated with the RAN the search for the German Pacific Squadron, took part in the capture of the German Colonies in the South West Pacific, was present at the surrender of German New Guinea at Rabaul on 13 September 1914, assisted in the consolidation of the Australian occupation of New Guinea and New Britain, served with the British Far East Patrol at Sandakan in Borneo and Singapore, operated in the Mediterranean as part of the British 5th Destroyer Flotilla, operated with an Allied Squadron in the Black Sea, and returned to Australia on 21 May 1919. HMAS Warrego paid off 19 April 1928, and sank while being dismantled in 1931.
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  • HMAS Warrego (D70), named for the Warrego River, was a River class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Warrego was laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited at Govan in Scotland, then taken to pieces and the parts shipped out to Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney, where they were re-assembled. She was launched on 4 April 1911 and commissioned into the RAN on 1 June 1912.
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  • HMAS Warrego (D70)
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