HMAS Launceston

Three ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Launceston after the city of Launceston, Tasmania. A fourth was to be named, but this was rescinded.


 * HMS Tasmania, an S class destroyer transferred from the Royal Navy to the RAN in July 1919, was to be renamed HMAS Launceston, but was instead commissioned under her original name
 * HMAS Launceston (J179), a Bathurst class corvette commissioned in 1942, and transferred to the Turkish Navy in 1946
 * HMAS Launceston (FCPB 207), a Fremantle class patrol boat laid down in 1980 and decommissioned in 2006
 * HMAS Launceston (ACPB 94), an Armidale class patrol boat commissioned in 2007 and active as of 2013

Battle honours
Ships named HMAS Launceston are entitled to carry four battle honours:
 * Pacific 1942–45
 * Indian Ocean 1942–44
 * East Indies 1944
 * Okinawa 1945