Hmas Diamantina

Diamantina is Australia’s largest World War II survivor and the last of over 200 River class and variant frigates the Allies built during that conflict. Built in a long gone shipyard in a small Queensland city, crewed over her long life by thousands of men from all states and territories, based for most of her second commission in Western Australia, and operating in the Indian and Pacific Oceans to as far away as The Gulf, Hong Kong, and the Southern Ocean, Diamantina embodies much of the Navy’s story in the latter part of the twentieth century.