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Two vessels of the Royal Australian Navy have borne the name Dubbo, for a town in New South Wales.

The first HMAS Dubbo (J-251/M-251) was a Bathurst class corvette built by Morts Dock and Engineering at Balmain in New South Wales, launched on 7 March 1942 by Mrs. B. B. Scrisier, Mayoress of Dubbo, and commissioned on 31 July 1942. HMAS Dubbo paid off to reserve on 7 February 1947, was sold for scrap to Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha of Tokyo on 20 February 1958, and towed to Japan.


The second HMAS Dubbo (P-214) is a Fremantle class patrol boat laid down by North Queensland Engineers and Agents at CairnsCairns is a city located in the far north of Queensland, Australia. The city was originally settled to serve as a port for exporting gold and other precious metals from mines west of the city. It then later became a center for the crushing and exporting o in QueenslandQueensland State flag ( In detail) Coat of Arms ( In detail) Capital Brisbane Governor HE Ms Quentin Bryce Premier Peter Beattie Area — Land — Marine — Total 1 730 648 km˛ 121 994 km˛ 1 852 642 km˛ Population (2002) Density 3 729 000 2. 15/km˛ Time zone U on 9 August 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du, launched on 21 January 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe in the presence of Thomas Arthur Slattery and Mrs Joan Slattery, then Mayor and Mayoress of Dubbo and commissioned on 10 March 1984.

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