HMAS Parramatta, Torpedo-boat destroyer in Australia

HMAS Parramatta (D55) was a River-class torpedo-boat destroyer 74.7 m long with a 7.4 m beam, displacing 750 long tons and armed with a 4-inch gun, three 12-pounder guns and three 18-inch torpedo tubes. Parsons turbines and three Yarrow boilers drove three shafts at 11,500 shp, giving 26 knots; on trials she reached 27.3 knots. Her bow and stern sections, salvaged in 1973, stand as memorials.

Ordered on 13 March 1909 for the Commonwealth Naval Forces, Parramatta was launched at Govan on 9 February 1910 and commissioned into the Royal Navy for the voyage to Australia. Recommissioned as HMAS Parramatta on 1 March 1911, she patrolled the Pacific from 1914, then transferred to the Mediterranean in 1917 for anti-submarine work. She returned to Australia in 1919 and was sold in 1928.

The ship was named after the Parramatta River. Its bow and stern, salvaged in 1973, were turned into memorials; the stern section stands at the Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre in Sydney. The ship's company numbered 66 to 73, including five officers.

The hull grounded on the Hawkesbury River during a gale in 1933 and was left to rust; in 1973 the bow and stern sections were salvaged and turned into memorials. The surviving sections, not the whole ship, are what visitors can see today.

In 1973 the bow and stern sections of the rusting hull were salvaged and turned into memorials; the stern stands beside the Parramatta River in Queens Wharf Reserve, Sydney, while the bow is at Garden Island naval base.