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HMAS Warramunga at Garden Island, Western Australia in 2004
HMAS Warramunga at Garden Island, Western Australia in 2004

The second HMAS Warramunga (FFH 152) is a Royal Australian Navy Anzac class frigate. She was built by Tenix Defence Systems at Williamstown, Victoria and was commissioned in March 2001. HMAS Warramunga has made a number of deployments, including fisheries protection patrols in the Southern Ocean and border protection patrols off Northern Australia. She conducted her first operational deployment to the Persian Gulf between July 2006 and February 2007. HMAS Warramunga was also the first Australian ship to fire the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile.