HMAS Stuart (l)

HMAS Stuart was one of nine Scott Class, Destroyer Flotilla Leaders built between 1917 and 1920 for the Royal Navy. Stuart was completed after the WW 1 had ended but she served in and survived WW 2.

Most of Stuart's seagoing service was with the Royal Navy. In 1933 the Admiralty agreed to loan the Flotilla Leader Stuart and four V and W Class destroyers (Vampire, Vendetta, Voyager and Waterhen) to the RAN. Stuart and the other four ships commissioned in the RAN at Portsmouth on 11 October 1933 to form the Australian Destroyer Flotilla, later to become famous as the 'Scrap Iron Flotilla'.