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Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have borne the name Ballarat, for the city of Ballarat (or Ballaarat) in Victoria.
The first HMAS Ballarat was a Bathurst class corvette built by the Williamstown Dockyard at Melbourne in Victoria, launched on 10 December 1940 by Mrs. A. A. Dunstan, wife of the Premier of Victoria and commissioned on 30 August 1941. HMAS Ballarat paid off on 27 September 1946 and was sold on 10 July 1947. It was intended to operate the ship as Carmencita under the Honduran flag but she was not released due to the Korean War and broken up at Iron Cove in Sydney in November 1953.
The second HMAS Ballarat (155) is an Anzac class frigate laid down by Tenix Defence Systems Propriety Limited at Williamstown in Victoria on 4 August 2000, launched on 25 May 2002 and scheduled to be delivered on 31 July 2004.
