HMAS Stalwart

Stalwart was one of 55 S Class destroyers built for the British Admiralty under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program of World War I. She commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Stalwart in April 1919. She was not long in commission, however, when she and her sister ships Success, Swordsman, Tasmania and Tattoo, along with the flotilla leader, Anzac, were gifted to the Royal Australian Navy as replacements for the RAN’s obsolete River Class destroyers.