HMAS Huon (D50)

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History
Australia
Namesake	Huon River
Builder	Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company
Laid down	25 January 1913
Launched	19 December 1914
Completed	4 February 1916
Commissioned	14 December 1915
Decommissioned	7 June 1928
Honours and awards	Battle honour: Adriatic 1917–18
Fate	Scuttled 10 April 1931
General characteristics
Class and type	River-class torpedo-boat destroyer
Displacement	700 tons
Length	259 ft 9 in (79.17 m) length overall 245 ft (75 m) between perpendiculars
Beam	24 ft 3.375 in (7.40093 m)
Draught	8 ft 10 in (2.69 m)
Propulsion	3 Yarrow boilers, Parsons geared turbines, 10,000 SHP, 3 propellers
Speed	26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph) designed 25.775 knots (47.735 km/h; 29.661 mph) mean trial speed 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) economical
Complement	5 officers and 60 sailors
Armament	1 × 4-inch Mark VIII gun 3 × 12-pounder guns 1 × .303-inch Maxim gun 2 × .303-inch Lewis guns 3 × torpedo tubes for 18-inch torpedoes (1 removed 1918) 4 × depth charge chutes (installed 1917, 2 removed 1919) 2 × depth charge throwers (installed 1918)

HMAS Huon (D50), named after the Huon River, was a River-class torpedo-boat destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Originally to be named after the River Derwent, the ship was renamed before her 1914 launch because of a naming conflict with a Royal Navy vessel.

Huon was commissioned into the RAN in late 1915, and after completion was deployed to the Far East. In mid-1917, Huon and her five sister ships were transferred to the Mediterranean. Huon served as a convoy escort and anti-submarine patrol ship until a collision with sister ship HMAS Yarra in August 1918 saw Huon drydocked for the rest of World War I. After a refit in England, Huon returned to Australia in 1919.

The destroyer spent several periods alternating between commissioned and reserve status over the next nine years, with the last three spent as a reservist training ship. Huon was decommissioned for the final time in 1928, and was scuttled in 1931 after being used as a target ship.