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Hmas Swan (U-74/a-427/f-74)The second HMAS Swan (U-74/A-427/F-74) was a Grimsby class sloop laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Propriety Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 1 May 1935, launched on 28 March 1936 and commissioned on 21 January 1937. General Eather, GOC 11th Division, Australian Forces, accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in New Ireland from General Ito on board Swan on 18 September 1945. Swan paid off to reserve on 18 August 1950, was converted to a training ship between October 1954 and February 1956 and recommissioned on 10 February 1956. HMAS Swan paid off for disposal on 20 September 1962 and was sold for scrap to Hurley and Dewhurst of Sydney on 5 June 1964. Swan
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