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HMAS Kanimbla leaving Port Jackson for Operation Falconer

The second HMAS Kanimbla was a Royal Australian Navy amphibious assault ship and the lead ship of the RAN's Kanimbla class Landing Platform Amphibious. She was originally built for the United States Navy as the USS Saginaw and served with the USN between 1971 and 1994 when she was purchased by the RAN. Kanimbla entered service with the RAN after a lengthy refit and has completed a number of operational deployments to the Persian Gulf and off Timor Leste and Fiji. The vessel was decommissioned in 2011 and sold for scrap in 2013.