HMAS Perth

Three ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Perth after Perth, the capital city of Western Australia.


 * HMAS Perth (D29), a modified Leander-class light cruiser. Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Amphion in 1936, she was sold to the RAN three years later. The ship served until 1 March 1942, when she was sunk during the Battle of Sunda Strait.
 * HMAS Perth (D 38), the lead ship of the Perth-class guided missile destroyers. Built as a Charles F. Adams-class destroyer derivative for the RAN and commissioned in 1965, the ship served until decommissioning in 1999. She was sunk as a dive wreck off the coast of Albany, Western Australia, in 2001.
 * HMAS Perth (FFH 157), an Anzac-class frigate commissioned in 2006 and active as of 2012

Battle honours
Nine battle honours have been awarded to ships named HMAS Perth.


 * Atlantic 1939
 * Malta Convoys 1941
 * Matapan 1941
 * Greece 1941
 * Crete 1941
 * Mediterranean 1941
 * Pacific 1941–42
 * Sunda Strait 1942
 * Vietnam 1967–71