HMAS Warramunga off New Guinea during 1944

The first HMAS Warramunga (D10/I44) was a Tribal class destroyer, laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Limited at Sydney on the 10th February 1940, launched on 7 February 1942 by Mrs. Design history From 1926 all Royal Navy destroyers had descended from a common lineage based upon the prototypes ''Amazon'' and ''Ambuscade''. F. M. Forde, wife of the Minister for the Army, and commissioned on 23 November in 1942. An army (from Latin Armata "act of arming" via Old French armée) in the broadest sense is the land-based Armed forces

Warramunga was assigned to convoy escort duty between Queensland and New Guinea. Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the world's second largest island, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known She participated in multiple South-West Pacific landings during World War II, and was present in Tokyo Bay on Victory over Japan Day (2 September 1945), when the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed. is a bay in the southern Kantō region of Japan. Its old name was. Victory over Japan Day ( V-J Day, also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is a name chosen for the day on which the Surrender of Events 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the written agreement that established the Armistice ending the Pacific War and with it World War II. ^[1]

During the Korean War, Warramunga operated in support of the United Nations Forces. The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korean and South Korean regimes with major hostilities lasting from June 25 1950 until the

Warramunga paid off to reserve at Sydney on the 7th of December 1959, and then was declared for disposal on 22 May 1961 and sold for scrap to Kinoshita and Company Limited of Japan on 15 February 1963. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.

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