HMAS Stalwart
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Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have borne the name Stalwart.
- The first HMAS Stalwart (H-14) was an S class destroyer laid down by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited of Wallsend-on-Tyne in April 1918, launched on 23 October 1918, completed in 1919, and transferred to the Royal Australian Navy at Devonport on 27 January 1920. HMAS Stalwart paid off to reserve on 1 December 1925 and was sold for scrap on 4 June 1937.
- The second HMAS Stalwart was a destroyer tender laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 23 June 1964, launched on 7 October 1966 by Lady Casey, wife of the Governor General, and commissioned on 9 February 1968. HMAS Stalwart paid off on 9 March 1990 and was sold in May 1990 to Marlines S.A., a Greek shipping company, that renamed it MV Her Majesty M intending to convert it to a passenger ferry. It lay in Eleusis near Athens, Greece, until 1999 when it was renamed MV Tara II and had some conversion and use. It was scrapped at Alang in Gujarat, India, in 2003.